Date: 10/27/26 9:32 pm From: Marcus via groups.io <scrod2000...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Birding this winter and Kelvin Wave affected Tides Another observation.
The airport Channel by the Oakland Airport was pretty flooded at 1:20 PM yesterday with water covering part of the watermelon. A friend of mine today reported no beach at Dillon Beach during high tide.
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On Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 08:38:02 PM PDT, Claude Lyneis via groups.io <cmlyneis...> wrote:
I went out to the Stege Marsh/Meeker Slough on Monday Oct 26 to see how high the tides would be affected by the Kelvin Wave now hitting the West Coast. The predicted height, not including the Kelvin Wave, was about 6.6 feet at about 12:05. The KW is expected to add at least 1 ft in the bay and this was seen on the Embarcadero in SF.
It was as high as the King Tides in December and January in other years . The tide, which had turned Stege Marsh into a lake, is shown in a photo included below.
Most of the usual shorebirds were missing and not visible on the breakwater rocks off shore. There were some Snowy Egrets and Great Egrets. A Kestrel flew over and hovered briefly and I got some photos of that. On the island off the mouth of Meeker Slough, I was able to photograph 5 Wilson’s Snipes. They were not visible with the naked eye, but at 600 mm, I found them as has been true on earlier King Tides.
If the Kelvin Wave continues through the early winter, the tides are likely to be enormous at Christmas and late January and will be a factor in birding the shorelines.
