Gulfport, Arthur Kill tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.3 ktToward NNE (16°)

Next slack

1:38 PMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 kt10:24 PM

Next max ebb

0.8 kt5:42 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNE (16°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSW (197°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:03 AM, ebb 0.8 kt 5:08 AM, slack 7:53 AM, flood 0.8 kt 10:00 AM, slack 1:38 PM, ebb 0.8 kt 5:42 PM, slack 8:37 PM, flood 0.5 kt 10:24 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.

• ElizabethportSubordinate current station1.7 mi
• Tremley PointHarmonic current station2.8 mi
• Newark Bay Entrance LB 18Current meter (NOAA PORTS)2.8 mi
• Bergen PointHarmonic current station2.9 mi
• Bayonne BridgeHarmonic current station3.3 mi
• Kill Van Kull LB 14, east of Bayonne BridgeCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)3.5 mi
• South Reach, Newark BaySubordinate current station3.9 mi
• Bergen Point, East ReachSubordinate current station4.2 mi

• Tide times at Port Ivory, Howland Hook 1.6 mi
• Tide times at Chelsea 2.0 mi
• Tide times at Rahway River, RR. Bridge 2.6 mi
• Forecast for Bloomfield, 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 NYH1909, bin 10: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.