Whitehaven, 2.5 miles above tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.7 ktToward S (188°)

Next slack

Wed 12:34 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.8 ktWed 3:04 AM

Next max ebb

1.5 ktWed 8:34 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (6°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (188°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: flood 0.9 kt 2:14 AM, slack 4:53 AM, ebb 1.6 kt 7:51 AM, slack 11:08 AM, flood 1.8 kt 2:45 PM, slack 6:27 PM, ebb 1.2 kt 8:59 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.

• WhitehavenSubordinate current station2.8 mi
• Victor Point, 0.8 mile southwest ofSubordinate current station7.0 mi
• Salisbury, 2 miles belowSubordinate current station7.2 mi
• Chapter Point, Nanticoke RiverSubordinate current station8.1 mi
• Roaring Point, WSW of Nanticoke RiverSubordinate current station9.2 mi
• Long Point and Nanticoke Point, betweenSubordinate current station9.6 mi
• Sandy Point, Nanticoke RiverSubordinate current station9.8 mi
• Frog Point, 1.6 miles south ofSubordinate current station12 mi

• Tide times at Whitehaven 2.5 mi
• Tide times at Great Shoals Light, Monie Bay 8.7 mi
• Tide times at Roaring Point 9.1 mi
• Forecast for Princess Anne, 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 ACT5701, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.