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Old 06-06-2023, 04:47 AM
 
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Hello all,


I'm doing some research and am unable to find much information on the web.
I wanted to connect with some locals that can confirm information I found on only one website.

The site stated tides occur at same regularity as ocean tides, whith variation being around 3.5 feet.


Can anyone local confirm this is true?


Thank you in advance,

Inquisitive Mind
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Old 06-06-2023, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Orange County, CA USA
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The Great Lakes have tiny tides, so it would make sense that the GSL would be the same, very minimal, but there.
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Old 06-06-2023, 09:21 AM
 
Location: Connectucut shore but on a hill
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Extrapolating from the great lakes to Salt Lake is quite a stretch. Please share the website with this (mis)information so that I'll know to disregard it in the future.
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Old 06-07-2023, 09:13 AM
 
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Here is link to site I found.
https://seatemperature.info/great-salt-lake-tides.html
This information is hard to believe.
So I created an account on an online forum and posted locally in an attempt to have a person local confirm/disprove the information.

Thank you for your response.
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Old 06-08-2023, 06:48 AM
 
Location: Connectucut shore but on a hill
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Amazing. There's something very bogus about that site. It reports similar tide levels on Lake Michigan. NOAA reports that its tides are about 5 cm and totally overwhelmed by waves from wind and other weather, as anyone who has lived there knows.
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Old 06-09-2023, 12:11 PM
 
Location: South Dakota
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I have never been to the Great Salt Lake, but it's hard to imagine a landlocked lake having 3 ft tides. But I have lived very close to Lake Michigan and have paddled on Lakes Michigan and Superior. Wind driven waves and storms are far bigger than any tides.
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Old 06-09-2023, 12:22 PM
 
Location: Orange County, CA USA
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Extrapolating from the great lakes to Salt Lake is quite a stretch. Please share the website with this (mis)information so that I'll know to disregard it in the future.
You remind me of a guy I used to work with, one who delighted in finding errors, faults and mistakes in others, and then pointing them out. Then one day he tripped over his own ego, and no one has seen or heard from him since.
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Old 06-09-2023, 01:26 PM
 
Location: on the wind
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There probably are local natural history subject matter experts that know a lot more than some AI/computer program-generated website! Most people understand that the earth's larger bodies of water (technically, its possible all of them do) will experience tidal fluctuation due to changes in gravitational pull, but it may be so small it isn't enough to neutralize effects of local wind. It might only be measurable at new or full moons when the change in pull is most extreme.

What about asking someone like this? If they can't answer the question themselves, I bet they know someone studying the lake ecosystem who can.

https://nhmu.utah.edu/exhibitions/great-salt-lake

About tides:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/educat...s02_cause.html

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Old 06-16-2023, 06:30 AM
 
Location: Wartrace,TN
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You remind me of a guy I used to work with, one who delighted in finding errors, faults and mistakes in others, and then pointing them out. Then one day he tripped over his own ego, and no one has seen or heard from him since.
There is quite a bit of bad "information" on the internet. Should it not be challenged? I once saw on a website that human beings are the only mammals that slept on their back. Obviously, the person that wrote that had never lived with a dog.
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