Do tides have anything to do with the weather?

It has nothing to do with the weather. Tidal phenomenon refers to the periodic movement of seawater under the tidal force of celestial bodies (mainly the moon and the sun). Traditionally, the vertical fluctuation of sea surface is called tide, and the horizontal flow of sea water is called tidal current.

Tide is the first seawater movement phenomenon that attracts people's attention among all ocean phenomena, and it has a very close relationship with human beings. Port engineering, shipping and traffic, military activities, fisheries, salt industry and aquaculture, offshore environmental research and pollution control are all closely related to tidal phenomena. In particular, the endless vertical fluctuation of the sea surface contains huge energy, and the development and utilization of this energy has also aroused people's interest.

Anyone who has been to the seaside will see that the seawater fluctuates periodically: at a certain moment, the seawater pushes the waves to rise rapidly and reach a climax; After a period of time, the rising sea water receded on its own, leaving a beach and low tide. This cycle will never stop. This movement phenomenon of seawater is tide.

With the constant observation of tidal phenomena, people gradually realize the real reason of tidal phenomena. China's ancient Yu said in his book "Preface to the Tide": "When the tide rises and falls, the sea will not increase or decrease. If the moon is covered, it will follow." Philosopher Wang Chong wrote in Lun Heng: "Tao rises and falls with the moon." It is pointed out that tides have something to do with the moon. 17 In the 1980s, after Newton, a British scientist, discovered the law of universal gravitation, he put forward the hypothesis that tides are caused by the attraction of the moon and the sun to seawater, and scientifically explained the causes of tides.