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THERE IS A RISK of coastal flooding over the next few days due to “unusually” high tides, Met Éireann has said.
The forecaster said there will be some bright spells in the northwest at first today, but it will be another mostly cloudy day overall with outbreaks of rain and drizzle.
Coastal flooding is possible today and tonight due to unusually high tides.
Yesterday, Dart services experienced significant delays for a number of hours after waves overtopped onto some platforms.
Tonight is also due to be mostly cloudy with scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle. There will be patches of mist and hill fog, too.
Tomorrow morning will be mostly cloudy to begin, with patchy mist and further outbreaks of rain and drizzle. This will clear eastwards through the afternoon and evening with bright spells and showers to follow.
Met Éireann has said coastal flooding is, again, likely tomorrow due to the unusually high tides.
Looking ahead, the forecaster said it will be “generally unsettled” through the coming week with rain at times, but it’s expected to become milder around midweek.
The unusually high tides will continue out through Tuesday with the possibility of coastal flooding for all coasts.
Tuesday will begin dry in most areas, but cloud is due to thicken with outbreaks and rain, drizzle and patchy mist spreading from the southwest through the morning and afternoon.
Outbreaks of rain and drizzle will become confined to the west and north on Tuesday night.
The tides and the motions of the Earth are intimately connected, along with the Moon, of course.
timeanddate.com/sun/ireland/dublin
Readers will notice that presently, daylight lengths increase by 4 minutes every day and slow down towards the June Solstice. This is similar to tidal flows, which are fastest at flow (equinoxes) and slowest at ebb (Solstices). Sailors know this as the Rule of Twelfths, so the annual change in the tides is in response to the variable orbital speed of the Earth.
Some experiments can be done with contemporary equipment, while theorists prefer to remain stuck in the 17th century with their many cheerleaders here.
It will make sense to some who observe nature, even if they are afraid of empirical modellers.
@Gerald Kelleher: G’wan de Ger!!! Or whatever your name is this week.
@Gerald Kelleher: and in relation to the article (warning to people about increased risks of coastal flooding these days), your point is?… Answer in plain English and fewer than 50 words please.
@Jerry LeFrog: King Kanute sat by the tidal line and commanded the tides to stop coming in to demonstrate to his sycophants that humans have limited control of nature.
This lesson is lost as scientific method modellers demand that humanity control the weather/temperatures by doing or not doing something otherwise known as climate change modelling.
I prefer to enjoy nature and the tidal variations caused by the Earth’s cyclical motions. Modellers can’t even get the link between one 24-hour day and one rotation right using contrived logic.
” It is a fact not generally known that, owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time, the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are 24-hour days in the year” NASA.
You should be embarrassed by the empirical subculture.
What do they mean by “unusually” high tides? Unusual by what measure? Month, year, century, millennium, age?
@Nick Vasilakis: There is a seasonal or annual component to the tides. Before the Principia sunk research, there were some fairly decent comments.
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions/Volume_1/Number_16
The Earth accelerates in its motion around the Sun from June to December, with the maximum acceleration occurring around the Equinox. Its maximum braking occurs around the March Equinox as the planet slows down to the June Solstice. The tides respond to this acceleration and deceleration as an annual component added to the daily and monthly cycles.
People walking along the beach will enjoy the relationship between the tides and the combinations of motions and that the ebbs and flows change in response to the motions of the Earth and the Moon in a Sun-centred system.
@Nick Vasilakis: Flowing over harbour walls which were built to handle one of the roughest seas in the world? I wonder if Galway county council has bought any sandbags yet.
Nice of The Journal to write an article special for Gerald
@Gearoid MacEachaidh: It makes a change from writing so many King Kanute articles about controlling weather/temperatures by controlling human behaviour.
Time and Tide waits for no man
Pascal was a great researcher and recognised the presence of mathematicians who nowadays call themselves theorists.
” We must see the matter at once, at one glance, and not by a process of reasoning, at least to a certain degree. And thus, it is rare that mathematicians are perceptive and that perceptive men are mathematicians because mathematicians wish to treat matters of intuition mathematically and make themselves ridiculous, wishing to begin with definitions and then with axioms, which is not the way to proceed in this kind of reasoning.” Pascal
Then we have Isaac and his definitions; nobody knows their purpose, although I do.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-stm/scholium.html
When people see confusion, like yesterday’s referendum, they avoid it rather than embrace it.
The tide wouldn’t take her out
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