Letter: In Brief
Sir: John Champion (letter, 12 August) has missed two important factors creating extra low tides - or high ones. These are barometric pressure and wind. An inch of mercury corresponds to a foot of water: and gales up or down the Channel or the North Sea can raise or lower the tide by several feet, as we have seen on several occasions this century.
JOHN WRIGHT
West Wittering, West Sussex
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