Nixes Mate tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.5 ktToward NNE (23°)

Next slack

5:07 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 kt8:16 AM

Next max ebb

0.5 kt2:55 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward S (180°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNE (23°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 0.5 kt 2:55 AM, slack 5:07 AM, flood 0.5 kt 8:16 AM, slack 11:49 AM, ebb 0.5 kt 3:16 PM, slack 5:31 PM, flood 0.5 kt 8:27 PM.

• Storm Warning Storm Warning issued September 26 at 1:58AM EDT until September 26 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Boston/Norton MAUntil 8:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 50 kt and waves 2 to 4 feet. * WHERE...In Massachusetts coastal waters, Boston Harbor. In Rhode Island coastal waters, Narragansett Bay. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * 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.

• Deer Island Light, 0.8 nmi ESE ofSubordinate current station0.3 mi
• Deer Island Light, 0.7 nmi ESE ofSubordinate current station0.3 mi
• Lovell Island, west ofSubordinate current station0.4 mi
• Lovell Island NarrowsHarmonic current station0.4 mi
• Gallops Island, The NarrowsSubordinate current station0.5 mi
• Nubble ChannelSubordinate current station0.5 mi
• Deer Island Light, 0.4 nmi east ofSubordinate current station0.7 mi
• Gallops Island, 0.1 nmi southeast ofSubordinate current station0.7 mi

• Tide times at Deer Island (south end) 1.5 mi
• Tide times at Hull 2.2 mi
• Tide times at Boston Light 2.5 mi
• Forecast for Hull, 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 BOS1119, bin 8: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.