Cape May Channel tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 2.3 ktToward SSE (150°)

Next slack

Sat 2:54 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.6 ktSat 5:41 AM

Next max ebb

2.6 kt11:39 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NW (306°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (150°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:22 AM, flood 1.4 kt 5:02 AM, slack 8:45 AM, ebb 2.2 kt 11:32 AM, slack 2:35 PM, flood 1.6 kt 5:13 PM, slack 8:45 PM, ebb 2.6 kt 11:39 PM.

• Storm Warning Storm Warning issued September 25 at 6:58PM EDT until September 26 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Mount Holly NJUntil Sat 6:00 PM
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  * WHAT...North winds 30 to 40 kt with gusts up to 55 kt and seas 10 to 15 ft. * WHERE...Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Cape Henlopen DE out 20 NM and Coastal waters from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island DE out 20 NM. * WHEN...Until 6 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.

• Cape May Point, 1.4 nmi SSW ofSubordinate current station0.7 mi
• Cape May Point, 2.7 nmi SSW ofSubordinate current station1.2 mi
• Cape Henlopen, 4.8 nmi northeast ofSubordinate current station4.2 mi
• Cape May Canal, West EndHarmonic current station4.7 mi
• Cape May Canal, east endSubordinate current station5.0 mi
• Cape May Harbor entranceHarmonic current station6.0 mi
• Cape Henlopen, 5 mi north ofHarmonic current station6.4 mi
• Delaware Bay EntranceHarmonic current station6.7 mi

• Tide times at Cape May, Atlantic Ocean 2.7 mi
• Tide times at Cape May Point, Sunset Beach 3.2 mi
• Tide times at Cape Island Creek, Cape May 4.3 mi
• Forecast for West Cape May, NJ
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• All tidal current stations in New Jersey

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT4056, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.