Egg Island Flats tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.5 ktToward SSE (150°)

Next slack

Sat 3:15 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.7 ktSat 6:45 AM

Next max ebb

0.7 kt11:54 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (355°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (150°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:43 AM, flood 0.6 kt 6:06 AM, slack 9:25 AM, ebb 0.6 kt 11:47 AM, slack 2:56 PM, flood 0.7 kt 6:17 PM, slack 9:25 PM, ebb 0.7 kt 11:54 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 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 45 kt and extremely rough waters. * WHERE...Delaware Bay waters south 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. 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.

• Deadman Shoal, 3.1 nmi SW ofSubordinate current station3.8 mi
• Brandywine Range at Miah Maull RangeHarmonic current station4.1 mi
• Fourteen Ft. Bank Lt., 1.2 mi. east ofSubordinate current station4.2 mi
• Fourteen Ft. Bank Lt., 1.4 nmi SSE ofSubordinate current station5.2 mi
• False Egg Island Point, 2 miles offSubordinate current station7.2 mi
• Bay Shore Channel (north)Subordinate current station7.6 mi
• Brandywine Shoal Light, 0.5 nm west ofHarmonic current station8.2 mi
• Maurice River entranceSubordinate current station8.6 mi

• Tide times at Dividing Creek entrance 7.6 mi
• Tide times at Fishing Creek entrance 7.9 mi
• Tide times at Brandywine Shoal Light 8.3 mi
• Forecast for Port Norris, NJ
• 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 ACT4166, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.