Rockaway Point tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.9 ktToward SE (140°)

Next slack

2:53 PMEDT

Next max flood

1.9 kt5:16 PM

Next max ebb

1.3 kt9:48 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward WNW (301°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (140°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:25 AM, flood 2.2 kt 4:52 AM, slack 8:27 AM, ebb 1.3 kt 9:48 AM, slack 2:53 PM, flood 1.9 kt 5:16 PM, slack 8:44 PM, ebb 1.4 kt 10:10 PM.

• Storm Warning Storm Warning issued September 26 at 4:30AM EDT until September 27 at 6:00AM EDT by NWS Upton NYUntil Sun 6:00 AM
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  * WHAT...North winds 30 to 40 kt with gusts up to 50 kt and seas 11 to 16 ft. * WHERE...Sandy Hook NJ to Fire Island Inlet NY out 20 nm. * WHEN...Until 6 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Storm force winds and hazardous seas will capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.

  Mariners should remain in port, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for severe 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.

• Rockaway Inlet Jetty, 1 nm SW ofHarmonic current station1.0 mi
• Rockaway Inlet EntranceHarmonic current station1.8 mi
• Ambrose ChannelHarmonic current station2.2 mi
• Coney Island Lt., 1.5 miles SSE ofSubordinate current station3.5 mi
• Marine Parkway Bridge, Rockaway InletHarmonic current station3.9 mi
• Coney Island Channel, west endSubordinate current station4.2 mi
• Sandy Hook Channel, Front Range LightHarmonic current station4.3 mi
• Norton Point, WSW ofSubordinate current station4.4 mi

• Tide times at Kingsborough, Sheepshead Bay 3.1 mi
• Tide times at Coney Island 3.2 mi
• Tide times at Plumb Beach Channel 3.5 mi
• Forecast for Rockaway Point, 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 ACT3571, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.