Tide Forecast on Windy
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@ivo Would you consider presenting tidal flows as a sine wave for all sites. The resultant visual presentation would make tidal estimates very quick as most mariners and boaties know the rule of twelfths
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I just for fun compared the tide prediction by windy with those available at the german BSH.
It's not too bad, the times for high and low water are pretty close useful as guide on how to plan a passage. I was mainly puzzled by the hights shown in windy. There are negative values. So the values given are definitely not suitable for use in navigational calculations, which is totally ok because the feature is experimental.
What hight reference datum does windy use?
In marine navigation the usual reference datum for water levels/depth is LAT=lowest astronomical tide which is used as zero depth in nautical charts and which ensures that hights of tides are always positive (by definition) and depths in a nav chart are minimal depth. (Actual water level may get negative due to wind or other influences but not due to calculated tides.)
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@Tomber42
Also needs to state day and date ie , wed 05 or Thurs 06 -
@Jungbl you forgot to mention that air pressure affects tides.
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The Tide forecast isn't correct for Clearwater beach Florida the time zone should be set for - 5 GMT it is 5 hours difference from Eastern time to GMT London. Not - 4 GMT so thefore it's off envyone knows it's 5 hours difference from Eastern time to Greenwich mean time so why do you have the tide forecast saying it's -4 GMT hours when it isn't
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@steve-weatherman-smith
Your are probably right concerning the difference between local time and UTC time
But is the local time of the tide correct?
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Is there a way to change tidal values to metres from feet ?
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@jessamundi
Both units are shown in the table. -
Hello is it possible to have the tide times in the rest of Europe, like france, Italy, Spain, etc…
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@Patrick-Parma coming soon
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Hi all.
Just found that only in browser. It seems to work in every part of the globe:
At the very bottom, there are tides !
It's super super useful for me now as I'm in brasil kitesurfing and want to know when the lagoon is full, but also usefull when at home north of France when beaches disappear at high big tides. (You always need a few meters to setup your gear ;-) )When is this planed to come into the windy app (android) ?
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@pintaf We are already releasing the app for both platforms, so it should be available in upcoming hours or days.
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I idefix37 referenced this topic on
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@Suty Helllo
I live in Hong Kong and I'm not able to het any tide information in the App (i use android)
Is there a limitation due to the location ?
Cheers
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@andreshs1
It seems the tide chart is available near Hong Kong too.
