In a climate change panel hosted by MVY Monday, experts discussed how to strategically plan around rising tides, a concept known as managed retreat.
In a climate change panel hosted by MVY Monday, experts discussed how to strategically plan around rising tides, a concept known as managed retreat.
Six generations have passed since the first volume of the Eldridge Tide and Pilot Book, and the Eldridge family is still at the helm, currently working on the 150th edition.
Islanders can share local knowledge and learn more about the Storm Tide Pathways mapping project in a Zoom meeting Jan. 12.
There is neither time nor incentive to hike the beaches in summer, when mild weather and low tidal courses leave the sands undisturbed for weeks.
We had a wet spring. June has been extremely wet and we are still nine days from the last day of the month. As of Tuesday, the Vineyard received 5.98 inches of rainfall in the first 18 days of the month. Rainfall is measured at the National Weather Service cooperative station in Edgartown.
Since June arrived, the Vineyard has received measurable rainfall on 13 of those 18 days. We’ve had three June days when more than an inch of rain fell.
February remains the wettest month of the year, so far, with 6.63 inches of precipitation.
Tides will run higher and lower than normal this weekend.
The extreme range is tied to two astronomical events: a full moon on June 23 during a time when the moon is near the earth.
The earth’s tides are created by the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon. Usually the pull is greatest when the moon is either full or in the new moon phase. On Saturday, the moon is full and also closer to the earth, in perigee.
