The Tides iPhone App

Hello all tide checkers! I just wanted to let you know that The Tides App is currently down due to a service interruption from our third party data providers. We are currently working on an update to provide more reliable and accurate predictions, and will advise when the update is ready. Thanks for your patience  [ Read More ]

By Julie McCormick For Peninsula Daily News PORT TOWNSEND, Washington — Dale Moses has the quiet confidence of a man used to being in charge. A longtime Navy officer who retired as a captain after 35 years, he then worked as a project manager for Snohomish County. The Kala Point resident recounted his 45-minute brush  [ Read More ]

Parksville Qualicum News, Vancouver, BC Wednesday morning’s high winds off the east coast of Vancouver Island mixed with the high tide to create plenty of wave action in Parksville, French Creek and Qualicum Beach. Walkers who got too close got a little wet, but got to see some amazing waves crashing against the walls of  [ Read More ]

Doug O’Harra | Dec 27, 2010 Absolute sea level in the Gulf of Alaska has been falling, contradicting a global trend, according to a new study that focused mainly on the “good news-bad news” situation in Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ East Coast. But Alaska scientists have found a more complicated picture. The study,  [ Read More ]

When there is nothing else, you can always talk about the weather and last year was a warm one. Wet, too. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record for the global surface temperature since recording began in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive  [ Read More ]

A new study from Cardiff University has revealed that ocean circulation changes this winter may have been more dramatic than previously thought. The study found that as the last Ice Age came to an end, the formation of deep water in the North-East Atlantic repeatedly switched on and off, causing the climate to warm and  [ Read More ]