Moosabec Reach, west end tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

Sat 4:15 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.2 ktSat 7:18 AM

Next max ebb

1.3 ktSat 1:24 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward E (92°); below it the ebb, running out toward WSW (253°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.2 kt 12:42 AM, slack 3:43 AM, flood 1.1 kt 6:40 AM, slack 9:33 AM, ebb 1.2 kt 1:03 PM, slack 3:58 PM, flood 1.1 kt 6:57 PM, slack 9:41 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 25 at 7:09PM EDT until September 27 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Caribou MEUntil Sun 8:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and seas 6 to 9 ft expected. * WHERE...Coastal Waters from Eastport, ME to Schoodic Point, ME out 25 NM and Coastal Waters from Schoodic Point, ME to Stonington, ME out 25 NM. * WHEN...From 2 PM Saturday to 8 PM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.

  Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for 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.

• Moosabec Reach, east endSubordinate current station3.8 mi
• Pond Point, 7.6 miles SSE ofSubordinate current station15 mi

• Tide times at Steele Harbor Island 5.6 mi
• Tide times at Shoppee Point, Englishman Bay 10.0 mi
• Tide times at Millbridge, Narraguagus River, Maine 11 mi
• Forecast for Jonesport, ME
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Maine

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT0121, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.