False Egg Island Point, 2 miles off tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 1.1 ktToward SSE (158°)

Next slack

5:09 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.2 kt7:52 AM

Next max ebb

1.6 kt2:37 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (342°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (158°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.7 kt 2:09 AM, slack 5:09 AM, flood 1.2 kt 7:52 AM, slack 11:15 AM, ebb 1.6 kt 2:37 PM, slack 5:34 PM, flood 1.3 kt 8:16 PM, slack 11:29 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 26 at 11:45PM EDT until September 27 at 12:00PM EDT by NWS Mount Holly NJUntil 12:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and rough waters. * WHERE...Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE. * WHEN...Until noon 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.

• Cross Ledge LightHarmonic current station3.9 mi
• Brandywine Range at Miah Maull RangeHarmonic current station7.1 mi
• Egg Island FlatsSubordinate current station7.2 mi
• Ben Davis Pt. Shoal, southwest ofSubordinate current station7.4 mi
• Ben Davis Point, 0.8 mile southwest ofSubordinate current station8.4 mi
• Maurice River entranceSubordinate current station8.5 mi
• Kelly Island, 1.5 miles east ofSubordinate current station8.8 mi
• Ben Davis Point, 3.2 nm southwest ofHarmonic current station9.5 mi

• Tide times at Fishing Creek entrance 2.9 mi
• Tide times at Fortescue Creek 3.6 mi
• Tide times at Dividing Creek entrance 5.5 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 ACT4206, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.