Deepwater Point, Miles River tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

10:57 PMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 ktSat 1:51 AM

Next max ebb

0.5 ktSat 7:30 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SW (215°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNE (25°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: flood 0.5 kt 1:07 AM, slack 4:21 AM, ebb 0.5 kt 6:56 AM, slack 10:27 AM, flood 0.5 kt 1:31 PM, slack 4:47 PM, ebb 0.5 kt 7:22 PM, slack 10:57 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 25 at 5:55PM EDT until September 26 at 10:00PM EDT by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DCUntil Sat 10:00 PM
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  * WHAT...North winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 2 to 4 ft expected. * WHERE...Chesapeake Bay from Pooles Island MD to North Beach MD, Chester River to Queenstown MD, and Eastern Bay. * WHEN...Until 10 PM EDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous waves which could capsize or damage vessels.

  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.

• Wye River, west of Bruffs IslandSubordinate current station3.5 mi
• Long Point, 1 mile southeast ofSubordinate current station6.8 mi
• Kent Point, 1.4 nmi east ofSubordinate current station7.3 mi
• Bald Eagle Pt., east of, Harris CreekSubordinate current station7.4 mi
• Kent Point, 1.3 miles south ofSubordinate current station8.4 mi
• Poplar Island, east of south endSubordinate current station8.7 mi
• Holland Point, 2.0 nmi SSW ofSubordinate current station9.5 mi
• Bloody Point Bar Light, 0.6 mi. NW ofSubordinate current station11 mi

• Tide times at St. Michaels, Miles River 1.5 mi
• Tide times at St. Michaels, San Domingo Creek 2.5 mi
• Tide times at Claiborne, Eastern Bay 4.4 mi
• Forecast for Saint Michaels, MD
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Maryland

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT6086, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.