Brooklyn Bridge tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.8 ktToward SW (234°)

Next slack

Sat 3:57 AMEDT

Next max flood

3.2 ktSat 6:38 AM

Next max ebb

3.5 ktSat 12:26 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NE (47°); below it the ebb, running out toward SW (234°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 3:17 AM, flood 2.9 kt 6:01 AM, slack 9:17 AM, ebb 3.3 kt 12:07 PM, slack 3:33 PM, flood 3.2 kt 6:16 PM, slack 9:37 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 25 at 2:50PM EDT until September 27 at 6:00AM EDT by NWS Upton NYUntil Sun 6:00 AM
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  * WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and waves 4 to 7 feet. * WHERE...New York Harbor, including Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay. * WHEN...Until 6 AM 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.

• Corlears HookHarmonic current station1.1 mi
• Dimond ReefHarmonic current station1.4 mi
• Hudson River EntranceHarmonic current station1.4 mi
• Statue of Liberty, east ofSubordinate current station2.0 mi
• Newtown CreekHarmonic current station2.6 mi
• Red Hook ChannelHarmonic current station2.7 mi
• Manhattan, off 31st StreetSubordinate current station2.8 mi
• Gowanus Bay EntranceHarmonic current station3.2 mi

• Tide times at Brooklyn Bridge 0.2 mi
• Tide times at The Battery 0.9 mi
• Tide times at Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn Navy Yard 1.2 mi
• Forecast for Financial District, NY
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station NYH1920, bin 12: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.