Why are the waves higher on the full moon?

Question

i want logical answers

Answer 1

"Around new and full moon when the Sun, Moon and Earth form a line (a condition known as syzygy), the tidal forces due to the Sun reinforce those of the Moon."

I always wondered that, but never bothered to look it up!

Answer 2

gravity

Answer 3

the full moon coincides with the bigger tides so more water and current equals bigger waves plus a little help from a on shore breeze

Answer 4

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Answer 5

First, the waves are not higher at full moon. Waves are measured from hollow to crest and move at an average of speed in knots of 1.34 times the square root between two crests, in feet. That's: Waves.

The tide is the difference of sea level and that is influenced by about 70% of the moon and 30% of the sun. When water can move in a partly enclosed sea harmonically to the daily average of the moon passage that is roughly 24:50, The tide runs high; the Bay of Fundy being the highest in the world with a difference up to 13 meters. Second to that are the waters around the British Channel islands where I have sailed many times and experienced up to 11 meters tidal difference.

When it is the full moon (sun and moon on the opposite side) or the new moon (sun and moon on the same side) their gravitional forces work together and the tide is higher than usual. It is called spring tides, as opposed to neap tides.

Note that the highest tide (spring tide) is not necessarily on the very day of the full or new moon. My own observation is that it often comes one or two days after. The actual calculation of the tide is very complex. I have tried to computerize it a long time ago and there are many, many components of the different geometric relations between the moon and the sun like their declination, etc. There is even a component that only comes every four and half year. It was at that extreme condition that I experienced 11 meters tide at Paimpol, a French harbour near Jersey in the English Channel.

Answer 6

On the full moon day, the sun,the moon and the earth are in a straight line and hence the gravitational forces due to moon is reinfoced by that of the sun.so, the waves(rather the tides) which are caused by theses gravitational forces are higher.

Answer 7

when the moon is full it has a greater gravitational pull on the sea causing the sea level to rise