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The tide
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The high tide follows the moon so it's low 90 degrees from this, high 180 degress from the moon and high 270 degrees.
When the sun lines up with the moon you get an especially high and especially low tide, these are spring tides (nothing to do with the season) this is why new and full moons are associated with spring tides.
When the sun is at 90 degrees you get a small difference between high and low tides called neap tides
Pictorially it looks like this:
http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/tides/neap.gif
Bantry has a longitude of 9 degrees West and New York has a longitude of 75 degrees west however Rome has a longitude of 12 degrees east so Rome and New York are a closer match