A neap tide is where the tidal range between low tide and high tide is the smallest. Conversely, a spring tide is when the range is at its greatest.

The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand.

The interaction between the Earth, Moon, and Sun also leads to spring tides (when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align) and neap tides (when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other).

These are extra-high high tides and lower-than-normal low tides. Conversely, when the sun and moon form a right angle with Earth, during the first and third quarters of the moon, neap tides occur ...

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ON the coasts of the British Islands and generally on the European coasts of the North Atlantic and throughout the North Sea, the tides present in their main features an exceptional simplicity ...