Hendersons Point tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.6 ktToward SSW (210°)

Next slack

4:50 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 kt7:48 AM

Next max ebb

0.7 kt1:49 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNE (30°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSW (210°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 0.8 kt 1:41 AM, slack 4:50 AM, flood 0.5 kt 7:48 AM, slack 10:46 AM, ebb 0.7 kt 1:49 PM, slack 4:47 PM, flood 0.6 kt 8:03 PM, slack 11:17 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.

• Back Creek, 0.3 nmi W of Sandy PtSubordinate current station1.8 mi
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Chesapeake CityCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)2.3 mi
• Chesapeake City Bridge, 0.45 nmi E ofSubordinate current station3.3 mi
• Old Town Point Wharf, northwest ofSubordinate current station4.6 mi
• Red Point, 0.2 mile W of, Northeast RiverSubordinate current station6.8 mi
• Conrail Bridge, east ofSubordinate current station8.4 mi
• Rocky Pt. (Elk Neck), 0.25 nmi SW ofSubordinate current station8.6 mi
• Arnold Point, 0.4 mile west ofSubordinate current station8.7 mi

• Tide times at Old Frenchtown Wharf 1.7 mi
• Tide times at Chesapeake City 3.2 mi
• Tide times at Town Point Wharf 4.6 mi
• Forecast for Elkton, 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 ACT6226, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.