Paper Mill tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

11:26 PMCDT

Next max flood

0.2 ktMon 9:40 PM

Next max ebb

0.2 ktSat 4:30 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in; below it the ebb, running out toward WSW (249°). Times are Central Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:12 AM, slack 7:01 AM, ebb 0.7 kt 3:22 PM, slack 11:26 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.

• Redfish PointHarmonic current station2.3 mi
• Courtney Point, 0.75mi. SE ofHarmonic current station4.1 mi
• Courtney Point, 0.4mi. ESE ofHarmonic current station4.4 mi
• Bear Point, 0.6nm E ofHarmonic current station5.4 mi
• St. Andrew Bay EntranceHarmonic current station5.9 mi
• Long Point, West BayHarmonic current station10 mi

• Tide times at Parker 1.2 mi
• Tide times at Panama City 2.4 mi
• Tide times at Courtney Point 2.6 mi
• Forecast for Parker, 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 SAB0805, bin 16: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.