Absecon Inlet tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.9 ktToward SSE (147°)

Next slack

Sat 3:01 AMEDT

Next max flood

2.3 ktSat 6:20 AM

Next max ebb

2.2 kt11:06 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (328°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (147°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:29 AM, flood 2.0 kt 5:41 AM, slack 9:02 AM, ebb 1.9 kt 10:59 AM, slack 2:42 PM, flood 2.3 kt 5:52 PM, slack 9:02 PM, ebb 2.2 kt 11:06 PM.

• Storm Warning Storm Warning issued September 25 at 6:58PM EDT until September 27 at 6:00AM EDT by NWS Mount Holly NJUntil Sun 6:00 AM
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  * WHAT...North winds 35 to 45 kt with gusts up to 60 kt and seas 12 to 17 ft. * WHERE...Coastal waters from Sandy Hook to Manasquan Inlet NJ out 20 NM, Coastal waters from Manasquan Inlet to Little Egg Inlet NJ out 20 NM, Coastal waters from Little Egg Inlet to Great Egg Inlet NJ out 20 NM and Coastal waters from Great Egg Inlet to Cape May NJ out 20 NM. * WHEN...Until 6 AM EDT Sunday. * 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.

• Corson's Inlet EntranceSubordinate current station17 mi
• Manahawkin DrawbridgeSubordinate current station23 mi

• Tide times at Absecon Channel, State Route 87 bridge 0.8 mi
• Tide times at Atlantic City 1.4 mi
• Tide times at Ventnor City, ocean pier 4.4 mi
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT4011, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.