Jacknife Ledge tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.3 ktToward SW (219°)

Next slack

11:52 PMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 ktSat 9:10 AM

Next max ebb

0.4 ktSat 3:36 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SW (219°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNE (24°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 0.4 kt 2:52 AM, slack 5:03 AM, flood 0.4 kt 8:37 AM, slack 11:54 AM, ebb 0.4 kt 3:13 PM, slack 5:20 PM, flood 0.4 kt 8:39 PM, slack 11:52 PM.

• Storm Warning Storm Warning issued September 25 at 2:58PM EDT until September 26 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Boston/Norton MAUntil Sat 8:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 50 kt and waves around 3 feet. * WHERE...In Massachusetts coastal waters, Boston Harbor. In Rhode Island coastal waters, Narragansett Bay. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Storm force winds and hazardous waves will capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.

  Mariners should remain in port, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for severe 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.

• Gull Point, 0.4 nmi ESE ofSubordinate current station0.5 mi
• Stodders Neck, Weymouth Back RiverSubordinate current station0.8 mi
• Grape IslandSubordinate current station0.8 mi
• Grape Island and Lower Neck, betweenSubordinate current station0.9 mi
• Weymouth Harbor EntranceHarmonic current station1.2 mi
• Germantown PointSubordinate current station1.5 mi
• Pig Rock, northwest ofSubordinate current station1.6 mi
• Sheep Island, 0.3 nmi west ofSubordinate current station1.6 mi

• Tide times at Weymouth Fore River Bridge 1.5 mi
• Tide times at Nut Island, Quincy Bay 1.6 mi
• Tide times at Crow Point, Hingham Harbor entrance 2.4 mi
• Forecast for Weymouth, MA
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station BOS1125, bin 9: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.