What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - 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. But what makes ...

It is a situation of some gravity as the moon drags oceans around the world. Tides vary in height as the moon’s orbit gets closer or further away because orbits are a squashed circle or ellipse. In ...

A king tide is bringing coastal flooding risks to the Myrtle Beach area this week as the full moon prepares to rise over the Grand Strand on Monday night. The king tide, also called a perigean spring ...