- +Today's Tides for Old Grimsby
- • Local HW-4 to HW-2: The local first flood flows from the south through southwest. Water funnels into St Mary’s Sound and leaves via all other exits. At the end of this period, tidal flow is starting to enter between Tresco and St Martin’s.
- • Local HW-2 to HW+2: The local late flood flow is from southwest, west, northwest, and then west. Water enters St Mary’s Sound and between Bryher and Tresco and Tresco and St Martin’s, exits between St Mary’s and St Agnes and St Mary’s and St Martin’s. After HW there is little flow into St Mary’s Sound, and flow reverses in the Bar Point area carrying water southwards.
- • HW+2 to HW+4 The local early ebb flows from north to northeast. Water enters between Bryher and Tresco, Tresco and St Martin’s and exits by all other routes.
- • HW+4 to HW-4 The local late ebb is from the northeast, east, and then southeast. Water enters between St Mary’s and St Martin’s, and exits by all other routes.
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Low Water | High Water |
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01:00 (1.6m) | 01:00 (5m) |
13:25 (1.7m) | 13:25 (4.9m) |
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Time to low | 5:33 |
Total fall | 3.2m |
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Mean Spring Curve | Mean Neap Curve | Intervening Period |
Small tidal stream inaccuracies can develop when advancing beyond HW Dover +6. Because of this we only enable today's tidal stream chartlets to advance 24 hours. Future tidal planning is best accomplished by using Old Grimsby's future tides predictor below.
The above image represents the current tidal streams offshore of this haven. Streams attaining three knots and above are highlighted by red arrows . All times are in local time with red text indicating springs, blue indicating neaps and gray between tidal events. Click [+] to advance the estimate by an hour and click [-] to step back. Future tidal planning is best accomplished by using Old Grimsby's future tides predictor below.
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Arrows represent the direction of tidal streams with lighter or shorter arrows indicating weaker streams. Stronger streams are indicated by heavier or longer arrows, and as mentioned above, red arrows flagging rates of 3 knots and above. Numerals represent [mean neap, mean spring] rates in tenths of a knot. For example the numbers 12,23 would indicate a mean neap of 1.2 knots and a mean spring of 2.3 knots.
More local tidal details
Today's ST. MARY'S tides — High waters: 08:13, 20:28, Low waters: 02:19, 14:38Today's Dover tides — High waters: 02:09, 14:27, Low waters: 09:40, 21:58
We are now on Neaps.
MHWS 5.7m MHWN 4.3m MLWN 2.0m MLWS 0.7m
Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT) 6.4m, Mean Sea Level (MSL) 2.91m
HW St Mary’s is HW Dover – 0630, Devonport -00.55, Duration 0600
Tides are considerably affected by wind conditions and barometric pressure.
The tidal stream across the entrance can reach 2 knots during Springs. Tidal streams in Old Grimsby Sound are strong attaining 2 knots during springs. They run southeast + 0500 Devonport (-0040 Dover) and runs for 8 hours. The northwest-going stream begins +0030 Devonport (0510 Dover) and runs for 4:30 hours.
The tide in the open sea is a progressive wave, with slack water 4 hours before and 2 hours after High Water (HW). Tidal currents rarely exceed 1 knot within the island group, but flows of 2 knots or greater occur around the outer edges of the archipelago, with strong tidal races off major headlands. At certain places around the islands wind against the tide conditions can become quite rough. This is worth considering when making passage plans.
The northeast-going stream, along the southern coast of St. Mary's, turns northward into Crow Sound after -0145 Devonport (+0500 Dover), and forms a race which extends across the entrance to the sound, and as much as 2 miles eastward from Tolls Island, and it may be dangerous during gales.
At Watermill cove the northwest-going stream, spring rate 0.9 knots, begins + 0430 Devonport (-0110 Dover) and runs for 3 hours only. The east-southeast going stream, spring rate 0.9 knots, begins -0455 Devonport (+0150 Dover) and runs till -0100 Devonport (+0545 Dover). The stream is then slack for a short period after which it again runs east by southeastward, spring rate 0.7 knots till +0430 Devonport (-0110 Dover).
Tidal currents flow in a rotary fashion through the islands with the following behaviours according to the local tidal cycle:
This tool can be used to estimate future costal tidal streams for this area. All that is required are two simple steps:
Step 1: What is the Dover High Water for the target date?
Use a current Dover Tide Table to find Dover High Water for the target date. The National Oceanography Centre offers online tidal predictions for up to 28 days from today. Click here to open their tide table for Dover
Step 2: Input the target date's Dover High Water
Taking a mean tidal offset from Dover's tide, we expect your targetted date's associated local tide at to be:
High waters: Low waters:
Data based on an average tide is only accurate to within one hour, if you more precise times are required use the ISA tidal predictions, with ST. MARY'S offset -01:00.
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Headline: Showers continuing into Wednesday, but easing.
This Evening and Tonight: Heavy, possibly thundery, showers during Tuesday evening mixed with some clear spells. Showers generally easing overnight. Breezy along coasts to begin but winds falling light later with mist and fog patches possible by dawn. Rather mild. Minimum Temperature 10C.
Wednesday: Any low cloud and fog soon lifting to leave a day of sunshine and showers, though these generally fewer and lighter than on Tuesday. Turning breezier, particularly in the west. Maximum Temperature 17C.
Outlook for Thursday to Saturday: Showers in the west on Thursday plus along southern coasts on Friday and Saturday. Otherwise, drier with sunny spells. Feeling colder with rural frost and fog patches possible at night.
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