Glacier Point, Chilkat Inlet tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.2 ktToward NNW (328°)

Next slack

3:04 PMAKDT

Next max flood

0.4 kt12:32 PM

Next max ebb

0.3 kt5:21 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (328°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (146°). Times are Alaska Daylight Time. Today: flood 0.5 kt 12:00 AM, slack 2:46 AM, ebb 0.3 kt 4:56 AM, slack 8:23 AM, flood 0.4 kt 12:32 PM, slack 3:04 PM, ebb 0.3 kt 5:21 PM, slack 8:38 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.

• Battery Point, Chilkoot InletHarmonic current station7.8 mi
• Low Point, Taiya Inlet entranceHarmonic current station11 mi
• Point Sherman, WSW ofSubordinate current station19 mi

• Tide times at Chilkat Inlet 4.6 mi
• Tide times at Haines Inlet 8.9 mi
• Tide times at Taiyasanka Harbor, Taiya Inlet 14 mi
• Forecast for Haines, AK
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Alaska

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station SEA0827, bin 19: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.