MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand. But what makes ...

CLEVELAND — It's that spring break time of year for a lot of you. So many of you may be sun bathing on your favorite beach, reading a good book, looking for that perfect seashell, all while watching ...

What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...

They roll in and roll out. They're one of the Earth's steadiest forces, moving water from the ocean onto the land and then taking it back. Ocean tides are one of the oldest fields of scientific ...

King tide is back, South Florida, so don’t put away your galoshes yet. Annoying street flooding will test your patience for the next few days as water crashes over seawalls and bubbles up through ...

King tide is a non-scientific term for an exceptionally high tide. They’re also sometimes referred to as perigean spring tides. The water level of a king tide will be significantly higher than other ...

The periods of the three-body system of Sun-Earth-Moon play an important part in tidal dynamics. In this paper, I deal with extreme proxigean spring tides. To produce these rare and unusually high ...

The season’s third and final round of king tides will run their course around Puget Sound this weekend and next as the sun reaches its nearest point to Earth, but flooding is, thankfully, unlikely ...

SEATTLE — Western Washington fell victim to a double whammy of a king tide and heavy rainfall Tuesday morning, which led to lowland flooding from Anacortes to Olympia. So, what are king tides? King ...