Salem River entrance tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 1.8 ktToward ENE (62°)

Next slack

5:38 PMEDT

Next max flood

1.1 ktFri 2:50 AM

Next max ebb

1.4 kt9:39 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward ENE (62°); below it the ebb, running out toward WSW (245°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: flood 1.2 kt 1:54 AM, slack 4:56 AM, ebb 1.3 kt 8:15 AM, slack 11:29 AM, flood 1.8 kt 2:04 PM, slack 5:38 PM, ebb 1.4 kt 9:39 PM.

None right now. The National Weather Service issues small craft advisories, gale and storm warnings, special marine warnings, dense fog advisories and coastal flood products for water like this.

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.

• Salem River Entrance, east of marker 11Harmonic current station0.1 mi
• Reedy PointHarmonic current station2.8 mi
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal EntranceHarmonic current station2.9 mi
• Reedy Island WreckHarmonic current station3.1 mi
• Pea Patch IslandHarmonic current station3.5 mi
• Reedy Point Radio Tower, south ofSubordinate current station3.7 mi
• Bulkhead Shoal Channel, SE, Del. CitySubordinate current station3.9 mi
• New Bridge, Alloway CreekSubordinate current station4.0 mi

• Tide times at Sinnickson Landing 0.2 mi
• Tide times at Salem 1.4 mi
• Tide times at Reedy Point 3.8 mi
• Forecast for Salem, 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 ACT4296, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.