East Foreland tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 6.2 ktToward S (191°)

Next slack

Sat 12:32 AMAKDT

Next max flood

5.9 ktSat 3:19 AM

Next max ebb

6.1 ktSat 9:21 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (7°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (191°). Times are Alaska Daylight Time. Today: flood 5.2 kt 2:38 AM, slack 5:54 AM, ebb 5.6 kt 8:40 AM, slack 12:10 PM, flood 6.0 kt 3:05 PM, slack 6:19 PM, ebb 6.2 kt 9:02 PM.

None right now. The National Weather Service issues small craft advisories, gale and storm warnings, special marine warnings, dense fog advisories and coastal flood products for water like this.

The flood is the tidal current running in from the sea, the ebb the current running back out. Slack water is the short turn between them, when the current is weakest: the time to cross a strong channel, anchor, or dive. Slack in a channel is not the time of high or low tide; it can come hours after.

Speeds are knots along the channel's main axis, and directions are degrees true toward which the water flows, as NOAA prints its tables. A current against the wind stands the waves up steep and close together.

Predictions are astronomical: the moon and the sun, not the weather. Strong wind, river flow after heavy rain and storm surge all change the real current.

• East Foreland, 1.5 nmi. west ofSubordinate current station1.2 mi
• Tesoro PierHarmonic current station2.3 mi
• Nikiski, 0.8 mile west ofHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Unocal Pier, south ofHarmonic current station3.7 mi
• The ForelandsHarmonic current station4.2 mi
• West Foreland, 1 nmi. east ofSubordinate current station7.2 mi
• Kenai River, north ofHarmonic current station9.4 mi
• Middle Ground Shoal, southeast ofSubordinate current station9.5 mi

• Tide times at East Foreland 0.6 mi
• Tide times at Nikiski 2.6 mi
• Tide times at Kenai River entrance 13 mi
• Forecast for Nikiski, AK
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• All tidal current stations in Alaska

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station COI0503, bin 11: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.