We keep a record of the water's breathing.
Pale Blue is an independent tide and lunar observatory — three coastal stations, one continuous listening. We publish what the moon does to the sea, in numbers you can set your boots by.
The moon, computed for right now.
She pulls the whole gray ocean by a thread
of light we cannot see, and calls it tide.
Twelve hours, forty-two minutes, and change.
What the record is for.
Every station on the network logs pressure at fifteen-minute intervals and reconciles it against the predicted lunar and solar constituents twice a day. The gap between prediction and measurement — the surge, the set-up, the wind against the water — is where the interesting weather lives.
We publish the plain curve because most tide tables hide the shape of the thing behind a column of numbers. The shape is the argument: two tides a day, never quite even, drifting later by fifty minutes as the moon drifts east of where it stood yesterday.
Low water keeps its own appointment,
arrives a little later every day —
an honest kind of lateness.
- Established1998
- Tidal constituents modeledM2 + S1
- Sampling interval15 min
- Stations reporting3
- Longest continuous record27 yrs
- Data licenseOpen, attributed