Fort Lauderdale, New River tidal current predictions

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SlackTurning

Next slack

6:39 AMEDT

Next max flood

4.0 kt9:43 AM

Next max ebb

2.0 kt4:49 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (5°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (130°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:49 AM, ebb 2.4 kt 4:16 AM, slack 6:39 AM, flood 4.0 kt 9:43 AM, slack 1:41 PM, ebb 2.0 kt 4:49 PM, slack 7:07 PM, flood 3.2 kt 9:57 PM.

• Coastal Flood Statement Coastal Flood Statement issued September 30 at 6:24AM EDT until October 1 at 5:00PM EDT by NWS Miami FLUntil Thu 5:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Moderate coastal flooding. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...For the Coastal Flood Advisory, until 8 AM EDT this morning. For the Coastal Flood Statement, through Thursday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only isolated road closures expected.

  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.

• Coastal Flood Advisory Coastal Flood Advisory issued September 30 at 6:24AM EDT until September 30 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Miami FLUntil 8:00 AM
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  * WHAT...Moderate coastal flooding. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...For the Coastal Flood Advisory, until 8 AM EDT this morning. For the Coastal Flood Statement, through Thursday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only isolated road closures expected.

  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. This is a subordinate station: NOAA predicts it from a nearby harmonic station by fixed corrections to the times and speeds of its slack waters and maxima, so the curve between them is less exact.

• 17th Street BridgeHarmonic current station0.9 mi
• Turning BasinHarmonic current station1.2 mi
• Port Everglades EntranceHarmonic current station1.6 mi
• South Entrance (ICW)Harmonic current station1.8 mi
• South Port, at the terminalsHarmonic current station2.6 mi
• Bakers Haulover CutSubordinate current station15 mi
• Dodge Island, NW Turning BasinHarmonic current station23 mi
• Dodge Island, SE Turning BasinHarmonic current station23 mi

• Tide times at Bahia Mar Yacht Club 0.7 mi
• Tide times at Mayan Lake 1.1 mi
• Tide times at Port Everglades, Turning Basin 1.4 mi
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT8126, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.