New Pass tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.6 ktToward NE (46°)

Next slack

Sat 1:16 AMEDT

Next max flood

2.2 ktSat 9:17 AM

Next max ebb

1.1 ktSat 4:05 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NE (46°); below it the ebb, running out toward SW (231°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:08 AM, ebb 0.9 kt 3:42 AM, slack 5:58 AM, flood 2.0 kt 8:39 AM, slack 1:07 PM, ebb 1.2 kt 4:01 PM, slack 6:45 PM, flood 1.8 kt 9:00 PM.

None right now. The National Weather Service issues small craft advisories, gale and storm warnings, special marine warnings, dense fog advisories and coastal flood products for water like this.

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.

• Golden Gate Point, offSubordinate current station1.6 mi
• Big Sarasota PassSubordinate current station2.5 mi
• Sarasota Bay, south end, bridgeSubordinate current station3.0 mi
• Longboat PassSubordinate current station10 mi
• Little Sarasota Bay, south end, bridgeSubordinate current station12 mi
• Cortez, north of bridgeSubordinate current station12 mi
• Blackburn Bay, south end, bridgeSubordinate current station16 mi
• Rattlesnake Key, 3.1 miles west ofSubordinate current station17 mi

• Tide times at Longboats Key, Sarasota Bay 0.8 mi
• Tide times at Sarasota, Sarasota Bay 2.3 mi
• Tide times at Siesta Key, Big Sarasota Pass 3.5 mi
• Forecast for Sarasota, FL
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Florida

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT8381, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.