Monitoring Instantaneous Sea Level, aka Tide Level

The title link provides a plot of water levels at the Brandywine Light monitoring station in the center of the DE Bay off of Prime Hook Beach. The above plot is from that station showing the water level peaked at approximately 8.3 feet on October 29, 2011.

Due to the dunes north of Prime Hook Beach having been repeatedly washed out by several storms over the past few years, Prime Hook Road was approximately 1.5 feet under water at the worst on Oct 29. This exceptionally high tide was due to a strong Nor'easter and 'spring' tide conditions (new moon plus moon close to earth). Fortunately the current Nor'easter is occurring with the moon at about 1/2 full, so the tides for Nov 5 have only peaked at a little under 6 feet.