Pea Patch Island tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 2.5 ktToward SSE (155°)

Next slack

8:15 AMEDT

Next max flood

2.5 kt10:42 AM

Next max ebb

2.7 kt5:31 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (338°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (155°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:42 AM, ebb 2.5 kt 4:55 AM, slack 8:15 AM, flood 2.5 kt 10:42 AM, slack 2:03 PM, ebb 2.7 kt 5:31 PM, slack 8:48 PM, flood 2.4 kt 11:11 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 north 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.

• Finns Point, 0.60 nmi Northwest ofSubordinate current station1.2 mi
• Bulkhead Shoal Channel, SE, Del. CitySubordinate current station1.3 mi
• Bulkhead Shoal Channel, off Del. CitySubordinate current station1.5 mi
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal EntranceHarmonic current station1.9 mi
• Penns Neck, 0.3 mile west ofSubordinate current station2.0 mi
• Penns Neck, 0.6 mile west ofSubordinate current station2.1 mi
• Reedy Point Radio Tower, south ofSubordinate current station2.3 mi
• Reedy PointHarmonic current station2.4 mi

• Tide times at Pea Patch Island, Bulkhead Shoal Channel 0.9 mi
• Tide times at Delaware City 1.7 mi
• Tide times at Delaware City Branch Channel bridge 2.2 mi
• Forecast for Delaware City, DE
• 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 DEB2115, bin 11: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.