Muskeget Channel tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 2.7 ktToward SSW (200°)

Next slack

5:00 AMEDT

Next max flood

4.3 kt7:20 AM

Next max ebb

3.7 kt1:16 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNE (21°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSW (200°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 3.7 kt 1:16 AM, slack 5:00 AM, flood 4.3 kt 7:20 AM, slack 11:22 AM, ebb 3.7 kt 1:38 PM, slack 5:21 PM, flood 4.1 kt 7:36 PM, slack 11:36 PM.

• Storm Warning Storm Warning issued September 25 at 2:58PM EDT until September 26 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Boston/Norton MAUntil 8:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 55 kt and seas 6 to 9 feet. * WHERE...Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Storm force winds and hazardous seas 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. 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.

• Muskeget Rock, 1.3 miles southwest ofSubordinate current station2.4 mi
• Cape Poge Lt., 1.7 miles SSE ofSubordinate current station3.6 mi
• Long Shoal-Norton Shoal, betweenSubordinate current station6.1 mi
• Cape Poge Light, 1.4 miles west ofSubordinate current station6.2 mi
• Muskeget I., channel 1 mile northeast ofSubordinate current station7.0 mi
• Cape Poge Lt., 3.2 miles northeast ofSubordinate current station7.7 mi
• Hedge Fence Lighted Gong Buoy 22Subordinate current station9.1 mi
• Cross Rip ChannelSubordinate current station9.6 mi

• Tide times at Wasque Point, Chappaquiddick Island 1.9 mi
• Tide times at Edgartown 5.5 mi
• Tide times at Muskeget Island, north side 6.0 mi
• Forecast for Edgartown, MA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Massachusetts

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT1706, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.