Here's a nice and stress reducing article about tides along the East Cost of the US this year were higher than normal -- in some places as much as 2 feet above projections. But don't worry, climate change is a myth. I wonder if this is at all related to the spate of very bad weather we've had up in New England this season.

NOAA is rushing to study the data in an effort to understand what happened. Szabados’ office is already putting the finishing touches on a report that will be released next month on the wind and current patterns that appear to be correlated with the tidal surge.

Szabados said that two main factors appear to have contributed to the extra high tides. First, there were steady winds out of the northeast throughout this anomaly. Second, the ocean current running from Florida up along the coast weakened. While the associations between these phenomena and the tides are provocactive, it’s too early to tell how fully they explain this unexpected tidal event.