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COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1205 PM EST WED MAR 7 2001

...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED BUT SWELLS WILL REMAIN HIGH...

THE COASTAL FLOOD WARNING FOR EAST COASTAL MASSACHUSETTS HAS
EXPIRED.  NEVERTHELESS...SWELLS FROM THIS LONG DURATION STORM WILL
TAKE SOME TIME TO SETTLE DOWN...AND THE DAYTIME ASTRONOMICAL TIDE
WILL BE RELATIVELY HIGH DUE TO THE FULL MOON FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL
DAYS. THUS...MINOR SPILLOVER OVER MAY TAKE PLACE AT THE TIME OF HIGH
TIDE THURSDAY MORNING.  MINOR BEACH EROSION IS STILL POSSIBLE IN A
FEW SPOTS.

A NEW STORM WILL AFFECT THE AREA SOMETIME FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY
MORNING.  ITS TOO SOON TO DETERMINE IF THERE WILL BE SUFFICIENT
ONSHORE WIND TO CREATE ANY COASTAL FLOODING FRIDAY OR SATURDAY.

HERE ARE SOME TIMES AND HEIGHTS OF THE PREDICTED ASTRONOMICAL TIDE
THROUGH SATURDAY FOR BOSTON AND NANTUCKET.  THE HEIGHTS ARE GIVEN IN
FEET ABOVE MEAN LOWER LOW WATER...AND DO NOT REFLECT ANY CHANGES FROM
WIND OR WAVE.

FOR THURSDAY MARCH 8...

LOCATION          TIME OF        ASTRONOMICAL
                 HIGH TIDE       TIDE HEIGHT

BOSTON            943 AM            11.5
                 1021 PM            10.6

NANTUCKET        1045 AM             4.0
                 1123 PM             3.2

FOR FRIDAY MARCH 9...

LOCATION          TIME OF        ASTRONOMICAL
                 HIGH TIDE       TIDE HEIGHT

BOSTON           1038 AM            11.8
                 1111 PM            11.1

NANTUCKET        1143 AM             3.9

FOR SATURDAY MARCH 10...

LOCATION          TIME OF        ASTRONOMICAL
                 HIGH TIDE       TIDE HEIGHT

BOSTON           1131 AM            11.8

NANTUCKET        1216 AM             3.4
                 1239 PM             3.8

PEOPLE GOING TO THE BEACH TO WATCH THE SURF SHOULD BE CAREFUL NOT
TO GET TOO CLOSE.  GROUPS OF LARGER WAVES THAN OTHERS CAN SUDDENLY
SWEEP ACROSS PREVIOUSLY DRY AREAS.

$$

THOMPSON