Wrightsville Beach

I keep trying to combine the words minor and moderate for some reason.

wrightsville beach we've seen minor flooding man i need to just wrap this show up i can't speak anymore um and i think that's our last one so we've been uh we've been showing these to you over on the carolina weather net as part of our special coverage so if you want to keep a close eye on those you can stream the carolina weather net over there on the youtube channel anytime to get uh these uh special coverage and also real-time alerts so when the national weather service issues beach hazard statements coastal flood statements flash flood warnings flood warnings you know the the full gamut of flood suites uh you will hear the uh the system read those out to you so that you can be notified of those things in real time any point that they happen let's check in with scotty powell he was uh at one of those places today uh where king tides were a problem let's take a listen scotty

everyone i'm meteorologist scotty powell here in garden city and we are going to be talking about the king tides uh we've been talking about all week how king tides are really starting to peak uh this week especially over the last few days and what is a king tide well really it's the highest high tide cycle of the year and this happens occasionally around four maybe six times a year on the grand strand uh but really this is one of the higher highest tide cycles that we've seen so far this year across the Grand Strand and it happens when the sun and the moon kind of line up with earth the gravitational pull and especially if the moon is closer to the earth it kind of just really high heightens that high tide and then the northeast winds that we've been seeing all month long is really just even add on to that so that's why we are seeing some of the highest tide cycles here so you can see behind me in Garden City people are out walking in it I don't know why you would do that But really a lot of people were out driving in it.

In fact, I've been here for about, I don't know, about 30, 45 minutes.

Check out the seas along the coastline.

Surfers are out and about at Wrightsville Beach, taking on those waves, being churned up from this area of low pressure, and it's gonna continue to keep those conditions pretty active along the coast, likely through Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

These are the current buoys.

Near 50 miles per hour just offshore, and right around 40 miles per hour on the winds from Hatteras to Duck Pier.