Washington

The tide at Seattle

Puget Sound runs a big mixed tide — two highs and two lows a day that are rarely the same size. The lowest ones open the beaches at Golden Gardens and Alki all the way out to the eelgrass.

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

A Wavepane at Seattle, Washington. See it live →

What the water does here

Seattle runs two highs and two lows a day, and rarely the same size twice. Between low and high the water moves about 7.6 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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