North Turning Basin tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.5 ktToward N (356°)

Next slack

9:14 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.0 kt5:47 PM

Next max ebb

1.1 kt12:33 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (356°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (170°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.2 kt 12:06 AM, slack 2:54 AM, flood 1.1 kt 5:31 AM, slack 9:14 AM, ebb 1.1 kt 12:33 PM, slack 3:23 PM, flood 1.0 kt 5:47 PM, slack 9:20 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 25 at 5:04PM EDT until September 27 at 11:00AM EDT by NWS Miami FLUntil Sun 11:00 AM
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  * WHAT...North winds 10 to 20 kt and seas 7 to 10 ft expected. * WHERE...Coastal waters from Jupiter Inlet to Deerfield Beach FL out 20 NM and Waters from Jupiter Inlet to Deerfield Beach FL from 20 to 60 NM. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Saturday for winds. Until 11 AM EDT Sunday for waves. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.

  Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in 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.

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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station LWI0904, bin 4: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.