You also have to take into account where the station is located that your app is pulling its data. For instance, the tide app I use allows me to pick the closest station or to pin one that is of interest to me. I pin the one that is closest to work since that has the lowest draft on my morning commute. AND!!! I have crused the inlet very slowly while watching my depth vs. what the app says the tide is supposed to be so I know my local off-set.
And that's the reason I would NEVER rely on a tidal app, only a government document(s) which in Cananda are CHS volumes of tide and current tables.
I thought we called 'em charts.
Now you have me deep in self-reflection as to why I used the landlubber term. Obviously a paper chart is a chart, and an electronic representation of the same thing is a chart. I guess something about the interactive content of the tides with changeable dates and times tied that to “map” instead of the relatively static “charts” in my brain when I was typing too fast.
That is exactly what happened. The wind was blowing from the Northeast and packing water into some areas like our little fishing village. High tide would crest about 3 hours late. That also means low tide never actually happens. This also causes what the locals call progressive flooding. One of our local old schools waterman called it.
It was still off. I have attached a drawing showing the 3 stations close to me. There was a considerable difference between there reading and my front yard.
No doubt about. It is the cost of living here. Here is another picture from January 2022 when a similar storm hit.
In the Peconic Bay estuary the same thing happens. An East wind will pile water up in the bays and there will be no "Low Tide." A West wind will blow the water out of the bay and there won't be a "High tide." I'm talking about a blow for several days. You can throw the tide tables out the window when that happens.
