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Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 11:05 am
by Matt Flynn
Darwin's 8.17m tide ... did anyone take any piccies? Fish it? Swim in it? See anything floating away? :D

Re: Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 2:42 pm
by b-radical
Really wanted to get down to buff and see it in the carpark but parenting/hungry belly got in the way

Re: Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:38 am
by slug
Very quite at the Shady barrages ....

Re: Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:59 pm
by joesgotone
I went to buff and was severely disappointed. The water covered th top of the ramp but you could still drive a car around the turn circle and stay dry. There was some debris washing around. I remember driving through salt water and only seeing the top of the speed humps sticking up out of the water along the road. Been a few years and before the current setup was installed. Wasn't worth taking pics. The debris line is not much higher than normal.

Re: Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:58 pm
by mickkk
This was posted on Palmerston weather Facebook feed.
That’s a lot of tide

Re: Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:09 am
by Matt Flynn
That wasn't the highest tide either, says it was the 8.08m, there was 8.17m the next day.

Not a good time to own seafront real estate ... https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2832/more ... waking-up/

Re: Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:05 am
by mickkk
It would be full on to have a Townsville type monsoon over a king tide.
It would be good to do a bit of modeling and release it publicly if we did have a big rain event. Atleast we would know what’s at risk, and be more informed what’s should be a priority with sand bagging etc.

Re: Darwin's 8.17m tide

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:14 am
by NinjaFish
Was down the wharf for the .059 low that day for a look and reminder of the harbour layout - would love to see satellite images of the Darwin Harbour on a lowest low. There were small Queenies and Barracuda working hard around the pilons.

Mickkk - try this link for storm surge, high tide stuff.

https://denr.nt.gov.au/land-resource-ma ... ation-maps