Fox Island Thorofare tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.2 ktToward W (278°)

Next slack

2:45 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.2 kt6:20 AM

Next max ebb

0.5 kt12:03 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward ENE (70°); below it the ebb, running out toward W (278°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:45 AM, flood 0.2 kt 6:20 AM, slack 8:37 AM, ebb 0.5 kt 12:03 PM, slack 3:03 PM, flood 0.2 kt 6:41 PM, slack 8:59 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 25 at 2:26PM EDT until September 27 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Gray MEUntil Sun 8:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 3 to 6 ft. * WHERE...Penobscot Bay and Casco Bay. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Sunday. * 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. 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.

• Browns Head, Vinalhaven Island, NNW ofSubordinate current station1.4 mi
• Crabtree Pt., North Haven I., NNE ofSubordinate current station1.7 mi
• Dogfish Island, NNE ofSubordinate current station2.6 mi
• Leadbetter Island, northwest tip ofSubordinate current station3.1 mi
• Widow Island-Stimpson Island, betweenSubordinate current station3.4 mi
• Leadbetter Island, E of southern tipSubordinate current station4.0 mi
• Leadbetter I., SSW of southern tipSubordinate current station4.1 mi
• Laireys Island, south ofSubordinate current station4.6 mi

• Tide times at North Haven 1.0 mi
• Tide times at Pulpit Harbor, North Haven Island 2.1 mi
• Tide times at Vinalhaven, Vinalhaven Island 6.4 mi
• Forecast for Vinalhaven, ME
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT0481, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.