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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As spring inches closer to summer, beach-going Pacific Northwesterners might notice Puget Sound tides inching farther out, ...

King tides are the highest tides of the year, but scientists have a different name for them: perigean spring tides. The name doesn’t refer to the season of the year — along the California coast, the ...

Tides go out, then come back in again, but the boat blocking the Suez Canal still won't budge. Monday, however, will bring an unusually high tide, called a "spring" tide, to the canal. It's expected ...

Tides drive action: New and full moon spring tides flood and drain marshes, concentrating bait and redfish into predictable locations. Lure choice matters: Weedless spoons, swimbaits, spinnerbaits, ...

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 ...

Holidaymakers heading to the coast this Easter are urged to take extra care, as a full moon spring tide is set to peak today bringing potentially hazardous tidal conditions along the Garden Route ...

As spring inches closer to summer, beach-going Pacific Northwesterners might notice Puget Sound tides inching farther out, exposing more of the sea floor during the day. Thanks to Earth's 23.5-degree ...