Saybrook Breakwater Light tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 1.9 ktToward ESE (103°)

Next slack

4:04 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.4 kt6:56 AM

Next max ebb

2.0 kt12:59 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward WSW (249°); below it the ebb, running out toward ESE (103°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.9 kt 12:42 AM, slack 4:04 AM, flood 1.4 kt 6:56 AM, slack 10:06 AM, ebb 2.0 kt 12:59 PM, slack 4:25 PM, flood 1.3 kt 7:19 PM, slack 10:38 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 50 kt and seas 5 to 8 feet. * WHERE...Long Island Sound east of Port Jefferson and New Haven, Peconic and Gardiners Bays, and South Shore Bays from Jones Inlet through Shinnecock Bay. * 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.

• Saybrook Breakwater, 1.5 miles SE ofSubordinate current station1.5 mi
• Saybrook ChannelHarmonic current station1.8 mi
• Cornfield Point, 2.8 nmi SE ofSubordinate current station1.8 mi
• Cornfield Point, 1.1 miles south ofSubordinate current station2.7 mi
• Hatchett Point, 1.1 miles WSW ofSubordinate current station3.3 mi
• I-95 BridgeHarmonic current station4.2 mi
• Mulford Point, 3.1 miles northwest ofSubordinate current station4.2 mi
• Cornfield Point, 1.9 nmi SW ofSubordinate current station4.3 mi

• Tide times at Saybrook Jetty 0.4 mi
• Tide times at Saybrook Point 1.8 mi
• Tide times at Lyme, highway bridge 4.4 mi
• Forecast for Old Saybrook Center, CT
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station LIS1013, bin 10: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.