How to read Waves and Tides display
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Greetings,
I struggle to understand the Waves and Tides display which you can use by clicking on "Wave&Tide" at the bottom of the screen (I use the web browser).To illustrate, here is a screenshot for Cuxhaven of thursday, July 3rd:
So first about the arrows on the map with the circle. I understand that the wind arrow corresponds with the 9 knots in the row "Wind". But what is "Swell" and "Swell 2"? It is mentioning minutes and seconds? Is this mentioned in the table below, too, or what does it mean?
Also about the tides data: I would expect that there is a low tide at 23:37Z. If the "Z" means Zulu, then this should be 2:37 a.m. at middle european summer time. Is this correct? Is there a way to change the time format to normal european times, since I do not care about Zulu time and would find it very confusing and annoying. I have already checked in the settings to have "Display all times in UTC" set to disabled.
Thanks for any help, it is much appreciated.
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The arrows provide indications for waves.
Wind gives the indication of windwaves by its direction and the wind speed.
Swell and Swell2 gives their directions and their significant heights.
https://community.windy.com/topic/17449/swell/2?_=1751352201723While concerning the fact that tide hours are wrong, I already mentioned it to the Windy team, but did not get any feedback.
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@idefix37 Thanks, I am surprised. Howcome the tide hours are wrong? You mean because they are in "Zulu/GMT" time zone? Otherwise I would presume the times are correct.
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@windigermensch
Yes it seems to be exactly what you say. “Zulu” time is displayed even if it is not enabled in settings. So it could be local time but that’s not safe for users.
