Baker Range Channel tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.6 ktToward NNW (331°)

Next slack

12:33 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.8 kt9:41 AM

Next max ebb

1.9 kt3:31 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (331°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (184°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:33 AM, ebb 1.9 kt 3:31 AM, slack 7:05 AM, flood 1.8 kt 9:41 AM, slack 12:57 PM, ebb 2.0 kt 3:52 PM, slack 7:28 PM, flood 1.8 kt 10:00 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale 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 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and very rough waters. * WHERE...Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE. * WHEN...Until 6 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.

  Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for hazardous 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.

• Stony Point, channel west ofSubordinate current station1.2 mi
• Appoquinimink River entranceSubordinate current station1.9 mi
• Alloway Creek ent., 0.2 mile aboveSubordinate current station2.7 mi
• Reedy Island (off end of pier)Subordinate current station2.9 mi
• Reedy Island WreckHarmonic current station4.8 mi
• Reedy PointHarmonic current station6.2 mi
• Reedy Point Radio Tower, south ofSubordinate current station6.3 mi
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal EntranceHarmonic current station6.6 mi

• Tide times at Artificial Island, Salem Nuclear Plant 1.6 mi
• Tide times at 0.8 n.mi. above entrance 3.0 mi
• Tide times at Hope Creek, 0.6 n.mi. above entrance 3.6 mi
• Forecast for Delaware City, DE
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in New Jersey

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station DEB2111, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.