California

The tide at Santa Cruz

Monterey Bay runs a mixed tide, and it is the *lower* of the two daily lows that matters — that is the one that opens the tidepools at Natural Bridges.

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

A Wavepane at Santa Cruz, California. See it live →

What the water does here

Santa Cruz runs two highs and two lows a day, and rarely the same size twice. Between low and high the water moves about 3.1 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.

See Santa Cruz live

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