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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE - Spring tide rolled into Fort Lauderdale bringing minor flooding threats and, if rain falls soon, the potential to impact drainage in some areas hit with record flooding last week.

King tide is a non-scientific term for an exceptionally high tide. They’re also sometimes referred to as perigean spring tides. The water level of a king tide will be significantly higher than other ...

MURRELLS INLET, S.C. (WMBF) - The Spring Tide clean up, a staple event in Murrells Inlet, is making its return this weekend. In its thirty-third year, the event has become South Carolina’s largest ...

SEATTLE — Western Washington fell victim to a double whammy of a king tide and heavy rainfall Tuesday morning, which led to lowland flooding from Anacortes to Olympia. So, what are king tides? King ...

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 ...