King tides, or particularly high tides, occur when the moon’s typical ocean tugs play — sometimes not so nicely — with “astronomical events” that “amplify that pull.” Along the ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — High tides reaching up to six feet between 8:30 and 9:15 a.m. Tuesday morning is causing some low-lying flooding along coastal areas. These astronomical high tides have ...

Why do high tides sometimes precede the moon's zenith and sometimes lag behind? If the tidal bulges only followed the moon, we'd always have a high tide when the moon is at its zenith—its ...

The distance between the low and high tide marks of any given shore is called ... calculate the energy at each of these astronomical frequencies. He believed that these calculations were the ...

The high tide caused by the bizarre combination of astronomical events would have been enough to dislodge icebergs and give them enough buoyancy to reach the shipping lanes by April, he said.