South Carolina

The tide at Myrtle Beach

Sixty miles of gently shelving sand. A five-foot range does not sound like much until you watch it take back thirty yards of beach between lunch and mid-afternoon.

A Wavepane display showing the tide at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: the current water level as a wave, the next tide time, and today's weather.

A Wavepane at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. See it live →

What the water does here

Myrtle Beach runs two highs and two lows a day, near enough evenly spaced. Between low and high the water moves about 1.5 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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