Port Chatham tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.2 ktToward SW (230°)

Next slack

10:32 AMAKDT

Next max flood

0.3 kt1:13 PM

Next max ebb

0.3 kt6:10 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NE (35°); below it the ebb, running out toward SW (230°). Times are Alaska Daylight Time. Today: flood 0.2 kt 1:13 AM, slack 3:28 AM, ebb 0.3 kt 6:10 AM, slack 10:32 AM, flood 0.3 kt 1:13 PM, slack 3:37 PM, ebb 0.3 kt 6:16 PM, slack 11:48 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 26 at 2:47PM AKDT until September 27 at 5:00AM AKDT by NWS Anchorage AKUntil 5:00 AM
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  Coastal Waters Forecast for the Northern Gulf of Alaska Coast up to 100 nm out including Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet. Wind forecasts reflect the predominant speed and direction expected. Sea forecasts represent an average of the highest one-third of the combined wind wave and swell height. .TONIGHT...S wind 20 kt. Seas 8 ft. .SUN...S wind 15 kt. Seas 7 ft. .SUN NIGHT...NE wind 15 kt. Seas 4 ft. .MON...N wind 15 kt. Seas 5 ft. .MON NIGHT...NW wind 25 kt. Seas 5 ft. .TUE...NW wind 25 kt. Seas 5 ft. .WED...NW wind 15 kt. Seas 5 ft. .THU...E wind 20 kt. Seas 4 ft.

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.

• Chugach PassageHarmonic current station3.1 mi
• Chugach Passage, east ofHarmonic current station6.1 mi
• Cape ElizabethHarmonic current station7.3 mi
• Kennedy EntranceHarmonic current station12 mi
• Port GrahamHarmonic current station14 mi
• Point Pogishi, southwest ofHarmonic current station15 mi
• West Amatuli Island, NorthHarmonic current station17 mi
• Ushagat Island, north ofSubordinate current station19 mi

• Tide times at Port Chatham 2.1 mi
• Tide times at Port Graham 9.7 mi
• Tide times at Picnic Harbor, Rocky Bay 13 mi
• Forecast for Homer, AK
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station COI0522, bin 6: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.