Question about tides on earth?

Question

I'm confused...

When the ocean tide is unusually high, will the following low tide be unusually low also?

Answer 1

Yes, unless the tide is caused by an earthquake or something.

The reason is that high tides are due to the fact the moon and the sun are aligned (at the new moon and the full moon), this adds the effect of both bodies. The high tide location essentially stays put while the earth spins under, so 6 hours later, the high tide is 1/4 of the way around the globe, but you are now in the unusual low tide area that balances all the water that went to the high tide zones.

Answer 2

No the following low tide will also be unusually high. Unusually high tides occur when the tidal bulge created by the moon reinforces the tidal bulge created by the sun. This is called a spring tide. Thus the low solar tide will occur at a time which is still a high lunar tide. Unusually low tides occur during neap tides, when the moon's tidal bulge is is 90 deg away from the sun's tidal bulge. the referenced site illustrates this, sorta.....

Answer 3

Not necessarily. If the high tide is caused by a prevailing wind in one direction up a long narrow river, the wind will also cause the low tide to be higher than normal. But periodically, depending on the closeness of the moon, the tides will actually fluctuate at higher differences.

Answer 4

For confirmation of your conclusion, look at some tide tables. It's not a simple relationship, but generally the higher the high tide, the lower the low tide.

Answer 5

Ok, I admit I will answer with my low science knowledge alone.

Tide are created by gravity, right? So when the object(usually the Moon) that pull the water up in one place, another place must have an equivalent low.

Nothing is created, nothing is lost, things only shift(real proverb say transform instead of shift).

My guess is that your answer is yes, because the moon going around Earth will pull up the water at her closest point of approach from Earth.

I am at work and we have a meteorologist that will come and do is daily brief at 730PM, I will ask him and come back with your real and serious answer.

Cheers.