Ward Point Bend tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.3 ktToward NW (309°)

Next slack

8:37 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 kt5:00 PM

Next max ebb

0.6 kt11:10 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NW (309°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (135°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 3:07 AM, flood 0.4 kt 4:31 AM, slack 8:37 AM, ebb 0.6 kt 11:10 AM, ebb 0.6 kt 1:41 PM, slack 3:30 PM, flood 0.5 kt 5:00 PM, slack 8:46 PM, ebb 0.7 kt 11:27 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 26 at 4:30AM EDT until September 27 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Upton NYUntil Sun 6:00 PM
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  * WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 45 kt and waves 4 to 7 ft. * WHERE...New York Harbor, including Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay. * WHEN...Until 6 PM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous waves 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.

• Ward Point, ESESubordinate current station1.4 mi
• Tottenville, Arthur Kill RiverSubordinate current station1.4 mi
• Red Bank, 1.4 miles south ofSubordinate current station2.3 mi
• Raritan River Entrance, Victory BridgeHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Seguine PointSubordinate current station3.5 mi
• Tufts Point-Smoking PointSubordinate current station4.6 mi
• Washington Canal, north entranceSubordinate current station6.4 mi
• South River entranceSubordinate current station6.8 mi

• Tide times at South Amboy 1.6 mi
• Tide times at Princes Bay 3.0 mi
• Tide times at Cheesequake Creek, Garden State Parkway 3.0 mi
• Forecast for Perth Amboy, 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 NYH1906, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.