Bayonne Bridge tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.5 ktToward WSW (258°)

Next slack

9:33 PMEDT

Next max flood

2.3 kt6:22 PM

Next max ebb

1.7 ktMon 12:49 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward WSW (258°); below it the ebb, running out toward ENE (78°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.7 kt 12:11 AM, slack 3:26 AM, flood 2.2 kt 5:58 AM, slack 9:10 AM, ebb 1.7 kt 12:32 PM, slack 3:55 PM, flood 2.3 kt 6:22 PM, slack 9:33 PM.

• Coastal Flood Statement Coastal Flood Statement issued September 27 at 3:14PM EDT until September 28 at 12:00PM EDT by NWS Upton NYUntil Mon 12:00 PM
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  * WHAT...1 ft or less of inundation above ground level expected in vulnerable areas near the waterfront and shoreline. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Hudson, Eastern Bergen, Eastern Essex and Eastern Union Counties. In New York, New York (Manhattan) and Richmond (Staten Island) Counties. * WHEN...From 7 PM EDT this evening through Monday morning. * IMPACTS...Brief minor flooding of the most vulnerable locations near the waterfront and shoreline.

  Do not drive through flooded roadways.

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.

• Kill Van Kull LB 14, east of Bayonne BridgeCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)0.3 mi
• Bergen PointHarmonic current station0.4 mi
• Newark Bay Entrance LB 18Current meter (NOAA PORTS)0.7 mi
• Bergen Point, East ReachSubordinate current station1.0 mi
• South Reach, Newark BaySubordinate current station1.0 mi
• ElizabethportSubordinate current station2.0 mi
• Middle Reach, Newark BayHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Gulfport, Arthur KillHarmonic current station3.3 mi

• Tide times at Bayonne Bridge, Bergen Point 0.2 mi
• Tide times at Port Ivory, Howland Hook 1.9 mi
• Tide times at Port Elizabeth 2.2 mi
• Forecast for Port Richmond, NY
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in New York

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station n02010, bin 8: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.