Alaska

The tide at Anchorage

Cook Inlet has the biggest tides in the United States. The water moves so far, and so fast, that the mud it leaves behind is genuinely dangerous.

A Wavepane display showing the tide at Anchorage, Alaska: the current water level as a wave, the next tide time, and today's weather.

A Wavepane at Anchorage, Alaska. See it live →

What the water does here

Anchorage runs two highs and two lows a day, and rarely the same size twice. Between low and high the water moves about 25.5 feet, averaged across a week of predictions.

A Wavepane on the wall shows that as a picture rather than a table: the water sits where the water sits, and the wave on top grows or flattens with the swell outside. It wakes every half hour, redraws, and goes back to sleep. Nothing to open, nothing to check.

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