Shark River Entrance tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.7 ktToward E (98°)

Next slack

4:04 AMEDT

Next max flood

2.7 kt6:42 AM

Next max ebb

1.9 kt1:24 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward W (273°); below it the ebb, running out toward E (98°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.7 kt 12:37 AM, slack 4:04 AM, flood 2.7 kt 6:42 AM, slack 10:15 AM, ebb 1.9 kt 1:24 PM, slack 4:51 PM, flood 2.1 kt 7:14 PM, slack 10:43 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.

• Manasquan InletSubordinate current station6.1 mi
• Manasquan R., hwy. bridge, main chanSubordinate current station6.3 mi
• Point Pleasant Canal, north bridgeSubordinate current station7.7 mi
• Seabright Bridge, Shrewsbury RiverSubordinate current station12 mi
• Highlands Bridge, Shrewsbury RiverHarmonic current station15 mi
• Chapel Hill Channel, South EndHarmonic current station20 mi
• Sandy Hook Chan., 0.4 mi. W of N. TipSubordinate current station20 mi
• Sandy Hook Channel, Front Range LightHarmonic current station21 mi

• Tide times at Belmar, Atlantic Ocean 0.3 mi
• Tide times at Shark River Island, fixed RR. bridge 0.7 mi
• Tide times at Shark River Hills 1.4 mi
• Forecast for Avon-by-the-Sea, 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 SHR9901, bin 14: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.