Arild writes:
"Tide range and current flow is highly dependent on topography of
bottom, Two extreme examples would be Bay of Fundy facing the
atlantic North of Maine and the Mediterranean facing the opposite
side of the Atlantic just south of Spain with virtually no tide to
speak of.
One body of water is a wide funnel opening that compresses the
incoming bulge of water because it keeps narrowing down until there is
a 50 foot high bulge at high tide.
The PNW has some of the fastest tide races you can imagine. due to the
convoluted geography found there..
You guys have it far too easy in east coast florida waters."
In the late 90s we lived for a couple of years in the Welsh town of
Menai Bridge on the island of Anglesey. If you look at a map of the UK,
Anglesey is right across the Irish Sea from Dublin. It is separated
from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait. The Menai Strait itself is
about 14 miles long, quite wide at each end, connecting Caernafon and
Conwy Bays, and narrowing down to a constricted channel of a few
hundred yards between Bangor and Menai Bridge. There is a regular 26
ft. tide in these parts. At the full and new moons the tide can swing
up to 30 ft. The different water levels between each end of the strait
force a swift current through the narrow portion that can reach almost
15 knots. The tidal currents are said to be the fiercest in the British
Isles.
Now that's a tidal current!
Larry Z
Arild writes:
"Tide range and current flow is highly dependent on topography of
bottom, Two extreme examples would be Bay of Fundy facing the
atlantic North of Maine and the Mediterranean facing the opposite
side of the Atlantic just south of Spain with virtually no tide to
speak of.
One body of water is a wide funnel opening that compresses the
incoming bulge of water because it keeps narrowing down until there is
a 50 foot high bulge at high tide.
The PNW has some of the fastest tide races you can imagine. due to the
convoluted geography found there..
You guys have it far too easy in east coast florida waters."
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In the late 90s we lived for a couple of years in the Welsh town of
Menai Bridge on the island of Anglesey. If you look at a map of the UK,
Anglesey is right across the Irish Sea from Dublin. It is separated
from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait. The Menai Strait itself is
about 14 miles long, quite wide at each end, connecting Caernafon and
Conwy Bays, and narrowing down to a constricted channel of a few
hundred yards between Bangor and Menai Bridge. There is a regular 26
ft. tide in these parts. At the full and new moons the tide can swing
up to 30 ft. The different water levels between each end of the strait
force a swift current through the narrow portion that can reach almost
15 knots. The tidal currents are said to be the fiercest in the British
Isles.
Now that's a tidal current!
Larry Z
