California

The tide at Half Moon Bay

A minus tide at Pillar Point uncovers one of the best reefs in California. They do not come often, and they do not last.

A Wavepane display showing the tide at Half Moon Bay, California: the current water level as a wave, the next tide time, and today's weather.

A Wavepane at Half Moon Bay, California. See it live →

What the water does here

Half Moon Bay runs two highs and two lows a day, and rarely the same size twice. Between low and high the water moves about 3.5 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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