Brewerton Channel Extension, LB 2BE tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.4 ktToward SSW (206°)

Next slack

5:33 PMEDT

Next max flood

0.9 kt8:30 PM

Next max ebb

0.6 kt2:52 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (6°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSW (206°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 0.9 kt 2:50 AM, slack 7:38 AM, flood 0.1 kt 9:13 AM, slack 10:43 AM, ebb 0.6 kt 2:52 PM, slack 5:33 PM, flood 0.9 kt 8:30 PM, slack 11:40 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.

• Measured, along the channel
• Predicted

A NOAA PORTS current meter, bin 1. Wind, river flow and storm surge push the real current off the prediction; the meter measures the difference.

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.

• Swan Point, 1.6 miles northwest ofSubordinate current station1.7 mi
• Swan Point, 2.7 nmi SW ofSubordinate current station3.1 mi
• Brewerton Channel Eastern Ext., Buoy '7'Subordinate current station3.3 mi
• Craighill Angle, right outside quarterSubordinate current station3.4 mi
• Tolchester Channel, SW of Bouy '58B'Subordinate current station3.5 mi
• Tolchester Channel, south of Buoy '38B'Subordinate current station3.8 mi
• Tolchester Channel, Buoy '22'Subordinate current station4.5 mi
• Love Point, 2.5 miles north ofSubordinate current station4.9 mi

• Tide times at Deep Landing, Swan Creek 3.8 mi
• Tide times at Tolchester Beach 6.4 mi
• Tide times at North Point 7.0 mi
• Forecast for Rock Hall, MD
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Maryland

Tidal current predictions and real-time current measurements (PORTS) from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station cb1202, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.