BajaNomad

Tide Predictions

sandbox - 6-25-2006 at 12:00 PM

Does anyone know how to get tide predictions at isolated spots in Baja?

I am only able to find tides at a few harbors along the entire coast. Any help is appreciated!

bajajudy - 6-25-2006 at 12:02 PM

This is all I have

http://oceanografia.cicese.mx/predmar/calmen.htm

Hope it helps. You should be able to guesstimate what it will be in your area.

sandbox - 6-25-2006 at 12:53 PM

much obliged!

shouldn't it be possible to have a resource by which you could enter a lat/long and the tide could be automatically predicted from those criteria? or maybe its a lot more complicated than that...

backninedan - 6-25-2006 at 01:34 PM

Heres another one, hope it works for you.

http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tides/

sandbox - 6-25-2006 at 01:43 PM

Thanks again, Judy, Dan.

What about GPS tides- are there systems that provide accurate tides for given coordinates?

Don Alley - 6-25-2006 at 02:32 PM

try http://bajaquest.com/bajasports/tides.htm

Estimate tides in a particular area by noting the distance between stations to the north and south and estimating the times in your area by the distances from those stations. Or visually observe a high or low tide and note the time difference from the nearest predicted port, then use that time difference in the future. Not exact but maybe good enough.

I have not seen sites that predict based on gps coordinates. Many sites I've seen use the Unix software predictor X-Tide; I don't run Unix and haven't seen that program's parameters.

Roberto - 6-25-2006 at 07:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajajudy
This is all I have

http://oceanografia.cicese.mx/predmar/calmen.htm

Hope it helps. You should be able to guesstimate what it will be in your area.


Even better is to download the software that generates the data for that page:

http://oceanografia.cicese.mx/predmar/survey.html .

You need to know (a little) Spanish, but this is the real deal. Check it out.

eetdrt88 - 6-25-2006 at 07:35 PM

this site has tide calendars for san felipe:http://www.sanfelipe.com.mx/ just click on weather and then tide calendars

sandbox - 6-25-2006 at 08:01 PM

I think I got it. With triangulation/guestimating, along with seeing a few cycles myself, I should get it down.

Thanks so much all.