Big Stone Beach Anchorage, buoy "G" tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.5 ktToward NNW (337°)

Next slack

11:30 AMEDT

Next max flood

2.1 kt8:28 AM

Next max ebb

1.6 kt2:20 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (337°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (165°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.6 kt 1:54 AM, slack 4:54 AM, flood 2.1 kt 8:28 AM, slack 11:30 AM, ebb 1.6 kt 2:20 PM, slack 5:19 PM, flood 1.9 kt 8:46 PM, slack 11:37 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 27 at 4:07AM EDT until September 27 at 12:00PM EDT by NWS Mount Holly NJUntil 12:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and rough waters. * WHERE...Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE. * WHEN...Until noon EDT today. * 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.

• Brandywine Shoal Light, 0.5 nm west ofHarmonic current station3.3 mi
• Delaware Bay Channel LB 10Current meter (NOAA PORTS)4.3 mi
• Broadkill SloughSubordinate current station4.9 mi
• Big Stone Beach, 2.8 miles southeast ofSubordinate current station5.3 mi
• Fourteen Ft. Bank Lt., 1.4 nmi SSE ofSubordinate current station5.3 mi
• Big Stone Beach, 2.2 nmi ENE ofSubordinate current station6.4 mi
• Fourteen Ft. Bank Lt., 1.2 mi. east ofSubordinate current station6.4 mi
• Mispillion River mouthSubordinate current station7.4 mi

• Tide times at Brandywine Shoal Light 3.9 mi
• Tide times at Mispillion River entrance 7.3 mi
• Tide times at Cape May Point, Sunset Beach 11 mi
• Forecast for North Cape May, NJ
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Delaware

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station DEB2106, bin 12: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.