MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand. But what makes ...

What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...

CLEVELAND — It's that spring break time of year for a lot of you. So many of you may be sun bathing on your favorite beach, reading a good book, looking for that perfect seashell, all while watching ...

King tides are the highest tides of the year, but scientists have a different name for them: perigean spring tides. The name doesn’t refer to the season of the year — along the California coast, the ...

The season’s third and final round of king tides will run their course around Puget Sound this weekend and next as the sun reaches its nearest point to Earth, but flooding is, thankfully, unlikely ...

Bathers, anglers and sailors are being cautioned of a full moon spring tide, which could significantly impact tidal conditions at beaches over the weekend. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) ...

Need a way to entertain kids out of school or family in town for spring break? Here’s a free idea that is typically a hit among locals and visitors alike: tide pooling. There happens to be mega low ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The higher than normal high tides are being created by several factors. Originally, they were called "Spring Tides" because a few times a year the sun, moon and Earth would line up ...