Why Are Tides Skewed Positive?

From: Will Estes (westes@usc.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Wed Jun 07 1995 - 11:31:58 PDT


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Subject: Why Are Tides Skewed Positive?
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:31:58 -0700 (PDT)
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I was looking at my Tidelines calendar, and I'm surprised to see that
there are no tides during the month of June for the Gate that are
below -1.5. Anything below 0 is very rare. My question is why is the
tide scaling system skewed to a positive reading? You would think
that they would have made 0 at some arbitrary midpoint so that tides
would be negative as often as they are positive.

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Will Estes              Internet: westes@usc.com-DeleteThis
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