Jones Inlet tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 1.0 ktToward SW (217°)

Next slack

3:46 AMEDT

Next max flood

3.6 kt6:37 AM

Next max ebb

3.0 kt11:45 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NE (35°); below it the ebb, running out toward SW (217°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 3:46 AM, flood 3.6 kt 6:37 AM, slack 9:17 AM, ebb 3.0 kt 11:45 AM, slack 4:14 PM, flood 3.2 kt 7:01 PM, slack 9:34 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
  Full text

  * WHAT...Northeast winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 50 kt and seas 5 to 8 feet. * WHERE...Long Island Sound east of Port Jefferson and New Haven, Peconic and Gardiners Bays, and South Shore Bays from Jones Inlet through Shinnecock Bay. * WHEN...Until 6 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas 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. 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.

• Long Beach, inside, between bridgesSubordinate current station4.9 mi
• East Rockaway InletSubordinate current station9.9 mi
• Grass Hassock ChannelSubordinate current station12 mi
• Beach Channel (bridge)Subordinate current station13 mi
• Fire I. Inlet, 0.5 mi. S of Oak BeachSubordinate current station14 mi
• Marine Parkway Bridge, Rockaway InletHarmonic current station17 mi
• Canarsie (midchannel), Jamaica BayHarmonic current station17 mi
• Hempstead Harbor, off Glenwood LandingSubordinate current station17 mi

• Tide times at Jones Inlet (Point Lookout) 0.7 mi
• Tide times at Point Lookout (marina), Jones Inlet 0.9 mi
• Tide times at Neds Creek 2.3 mi
• Forecast for Point Lookout, 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 ACT3546, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.