Saybrook Channel tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 1.4 ktToward N (0°)

Next slack

12:15 PMEDT

Next max flood

1.5 kt10:07 PM

Next max ebb

2.3 kt3:36 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (0°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (180°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 2.3 kt 3:11 AM, slack 6:44 AM, flood 1.6 kt 9:34 AM, slack 12:15 PM, ebb 2.3 kt 3:36 PM, slack 7:30 PM, flood 1.5 kt 10:07 PM.

• Coastal Flood Advisory Coastal Flood Advisory issued September 26 at 5:14AM EDT until September 27 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Upton NYUntil Sun 6:00 PM
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  * WHAT...One to two feet of inundation above ground level in vulnerable areas near the waterfront and shoreline. * WHERE...Southern Middlesex and Southern New London Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 PM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Minor flooding in the more vulnerable locations near the waterfront and shoreline. Some roads and low lying properties including parking lots, parks, lawns, and homes and businesses with basements near the waterfront will experience minor flooding.

  If travel is required, allow extra time as some roads may be closed. Do not drive around barricades or through water of unknown depth. Take the necessary actions to protect flood prone property.

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 LightHarmonic current station1.8 mi
• I-95 BridgeHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Saybrook Breakwater, 1.5 miles SE ofSubordinate current station3.0 mi
• Hatchett Point, 1.1 miles WSW ofSubordinate current station3.5 mi
• Cornfield Point, 1.1 miles south ofSubordinate current station3.5 mi
• Cornfield Point, 2.8 nmi SE ofSubordinate current station3.5 mi
• Cornfield Point, 1.9 nmi SW ofSubordinate current station4.8 mi
• Hatchett Point, 1.6 nmi S ofSubordinate current station5.1 mi

• Tide times at Saybrook Point 0.1 mi
• Tide times at Saybrook Jetty 1.4 mi
• Tide times at Lyme, highway bridge 2.7 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 LIS1015, bin 8: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.