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The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine
Tide clocks and watches
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The River Dee / Afon Dyfrdwy
The River Mersey
UK National Tide Gauge Network
Data availability
Tidal predictions – UK and Ireland
UK South Atlantic Network
Gibraltar sea level station
Tidal predictions – South Atlantic
Tide gauge instruments
Definitions of tidal levels
Chart datum and ordnance datum
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)
(external link)
Engineers’ page
Proudman Building, Liverpool weather station
About storm surges
Tide-surge model
Surge model forecast
Surge model archive
Surge model archive: 2004–2019
Surge model ensemble forecasting
Skew surges
Skew surge history: England – south
Skew surge history: England – east
Skew surge history: England – west
Skew surge history: Wales
Skew surge history: Scotland
Skew surge history: Northern Ireland
Skew surge history: Isle of Man
Skew surge history: Channel Islands
Sea level trends
Sea level trend charts
Software
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Storm surges
Surges are water movements caused by meteorological effects such as winds and atmospheric pressure changes – they are not easily predictable and require powerful computers and sophisticated software to predict just
36 hours
in advance.
What are storm surges?
A storm surge is a large scale increase in sea level due to a storm. Low atmospheric pressure allows sea level to rise, and gale force winds combined with the Earth’s rotation force water towards the coastline –
More about surges →
Storm surge model
The National Oceanography Centre Liverpool develops and maintains tide-surge models used for forecasting storm surges on the coasts of England and Wales for the Environment Agency –
More about the surge model →
View the latest forecasts
The latest surge forecasts for the next 48 hours from the National Oceanography Centre's storm surge model run at the Met Office, can be viewed here –
More about surge forecasts →
Archived surge model outputs
Forecasts and archived forecasts are given for 35 coastal sites around the UK coastline –
More about archived model outputs →
Skew surges
A skew surge is the difference between the maximum observed sea level and the maximum predicted tide regardless of their timing during the tidal cycle –
More about skew surges →
Skip to main content
National Tidal and Sea Level Facility
Tides
Storm surges
Products
About
Search
About tides
Tides – questions and answers
Sea level – questions and answers
The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine
Tide clocks and watches
Tidal river bores
The River Dee / Afon Dyfrdwy
The River Mersey
UK National Tide Gauge Network
Data availability
Tidal predictions – UK and Ireland
UK South Atlantic Network
Gibraltar sea level station
Tidal predictions – South Atlantic
Tide gauge instruments
Definitions of tidal levels
Chart datum and ordnance datum
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)
(external link)
Engineers’ page
Proudman Building, Liverpool weather station
About storm surges
Tide-surge model
Surge model forecast
Surge model archive
Surge model archive: 2004–2019
Surge model ensemble forecasting
Skew surges
Skew surge history: England – south
Skew surge history: England – east
Skew surge history: England – west
Skew surge history: Wales
Skew surge history: Scotland
Skew surge history: Northern Ireland
Skew surge history: Isle of Man
Skew surge history: Channel Islands
Sea level trends
Sea level trend charts
Software
Contact us
Storm surges
Surges are water movements caused by meteorological effects such as winds and atmospheric pressure changes – they are not easily predictable and require powerful computers and sophisticated software to predict just
36 hours
in advance.
What are storm surges?
A storm surge is a large scale increase in sea level due to a storm. Low atmospheric pressure allows sea level to rise, and gale force winds combined with the Earth’s rotation force water towards the coastline –
More about surges →
Storm surge model
The National Oceanography Centre Liverpool develops and maintains tide-surge models used for forecasting storm surges on the coasts of England and Wales for the Environment Agency –
More about the surge model →
View the latest forecasts
The latest surge forecasts for the next 48 hours from the National Oceanography Centre's storm surge model run at the Met Office, can be viewed here –
More about surge forecasts →
Archived surge model outputs
Forecasts and archived forecasts are given for 35 coastal sites around the UK coastline –
More about archived model outputs →
Skew surges
A skew surge is the difference between the maximum observed sea level and the maximum predicted tide regardless of their timing during the tidal cycle –
More about skew surges →