North Carolina

The tide at Wrightsville Beach

The low at Masonboro Inlet opens sandbars people wade out to, on a beach flat enough that four feet of water covers a lot of ground.

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

A Wavepane at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. See it live →

What the water does here

Wrightsville Beach runs two highs and two lows a day, near enough evenly spaced. Between low and high the water moves about 3.9 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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