Gardiners Point & Plum Island, between tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.8 ktToward WNW (288°)

Next slack

1:23 PMEDT

Next max flood

1.5 kt10:49 PM

Next max ebb

2.1 kt4:27 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward WNW (288°); below it the ebb, running out toward E (100°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:07 AM, ebb 1.8 kt 4:01 AM, slack 7:39 AM, flood 1.6 kt 10:17 AM, slack 1:23 PM, ebb 2.1 kt 4:27 PM, slack 8:20 PM, flood 1.5 kt 10:49 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.

• Gardiners Pt. Ruins, 1.1 miles N ofSubordinate current station0.6 mi
• Plum GutHarmonic current station2.6 mi
• Great Gull Island, SW ofHarmonic current station3.0 mi
• Orient Point, 2.4 miles SSE ofSubordinate current station3.2 mi
• Plum Island, 0.8 mile NNW ofSubordinate current station3.6 mi
• Plum Island, 3nm. North of, Buoy PIHarmonic current station4.7 mi
• Little Gull Island, 0.8 mile NNW ofSubordinate current station4.9 mi
• Orient Point, 1 mile WNW ofSubordinate current station4.9 mi

• Tide times at Plum Gut Harbor, Plum Island 2.7 mi
• Tide times at Little Gull Island 4.6 mi
• Tide times at Orient 7.8 mi
• Forecast for Orient, 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 ACT2501, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.