king tide, Oregon coast

The Oregon Coast’s famed king tides will return for the second time this season on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The nonscientific term refers to the highest winter tides of the year, when ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A month after the first round of seasonal king tides walloped the Oregon Coast, a second round of exceptionally high tides is forecasted for the Pacific Northwest.
King tides will return to Oregon's coast this weekend. The extra-strong gravitational pull will cause especially high and low tides that occur each winter. Steve Strohmaier of the U.S.