These sorts of measurements aren't done on the basis of one person eyeballing some pictures or making observations about the weather around them.

If you're serious about trying to understand the world around you, but don't trust others' data analysis, you can download the raw data & do the calculations yourself.

Historical tide gauge data: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tide.shtml

You likely want the CO-OPS 1-minute water level data.

Historical daily weather station data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global...