Norwalk Harbor tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.2 ktToward NNW (339°)

Next slack

11:20 PMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 ktSat 8:00 AM

Next max ebb

0.4 ktSat 3:00 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (339°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (148°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 0.4 kt 2:12 AM, slack 5:01 AM, flood 0.5 kt 7:19 AM, slack 11:26 AM, ebb 0.5 kt 2:49 PM, slack 5:30 PM, flood 0.5 kt 7:42 PM, slack 11:20 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 25 at 2:50PM EDT until September 27 at 6:00AM EDT by NWS Upton NYUntil Sun 6:00 AM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 45 kt and seas 4 to 7 feet. * WHERE...Long Island Sound west of Port Jefferson and New Haven. * WHEN...Until 6 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.

  Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for hazardous conditions.

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.

• Sheffield I. Hbr., 0.5 mile southeast ofSubordinate current station2.3 mi
• Saugatuck River, 0.3 mi. NW of Bluff PtSubordinate current station2.3 mi
• Sheffield I. Tower, 1.1 miles SE ofSubordinate current station3.6 mi
• Eatons Neck, 3 miles north ofHarmonic current station5.6 mi
• Long Neck Point, 0.6 mile south ofSubordinate current station5.7 mi
• Eatons Neck Pt., 2.5 nmi NNW ofSubordinate current station6.2 mi
• Eatons Neck Pt., 1.3 miles north ofSubordinate current station7.5 mi
• The Cows, 2 miles SE ofHarmonic current station8.3 mi

• Tide times at South Norwalk 1.0 mi
• Tide times at Rowayton, Fivemile River 2.6 mi
• Tide times at Saugatuck, Saugatuck River 3.0 mi
• Forecast for East Norwalk, CT
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station LIS1031, bin 6: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.