Cabin Bluff, Cumberland River tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.3 ktToward N (355°)

Next slack

3:32 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.7 kt7:21 AM

Next max ebb

1.4 kt11:32 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward S (171°); below it the ebb, running out toward N (355°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 3:32 AM, flood 1.7 kt 7:21 AM, slack 10:10 AM, ebb 1.4 kt 11:32 AM, slack 4:00 PM, flood 1.6 kt 7:48 PM, slack 10:43 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.

• Kings Bay, North Turning BasinCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)5.0 mi
• Stafford Island, west ofSubordinate current station5.1 mi
• Kings Bay, Site VICurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)6.5 mi
• Cumberland River, north entranceSubordinate current station7.2 mi
• Range E, LB 43, Cumberland SoundCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)7.5 mi
• Drum Point Island, Range D ChannelSubordinate current station8.6 mi
• EntranceSubordinate current station9.7 mi
• Range A2, LB 29, Cumberland SoundCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)11 mi

• Tide times at Crooked River, Cumberland Dividings 3.1 mi
• Tide times at Floyd Creek, 2.8 miles above entrance 3.8 mi
• Tide times at Harrietts Bluff, Crooked River 4.3 mi
• Forecast for Kings Bay Base, GA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Georgia

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT7861, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.