Dram Tree Point tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

Sat 5:38 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.7 ktSat 7:33 AM

Next max ebb

1.4 ktSat 12:31 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (358°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (181°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 4:58 AM, flood 0.6 kt 6:46 AM, slack 9:40 AM, ebb 1.3 kt 12:20 PM, slack 5:18 PM, flood 0.6 kt 7:00 PM, slack 9:44 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.

• 0.4 mile north ofSubordinate current station0.8 mi
• Port of Wilmington, South EndHarmonic current station1.0 mi
• State Pier, N end, sidelookingHarmonic current station1.2 mi
• 1.8 miles north of mouthSubordinate current station1.4 mi
• Lower Brunswick RangeHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Wilmington, USS North CarolinaHarmonic current station3.0 mi
• Wilmington, Northeast RiverHarmonic current station3.6 mi
• Point PeterHarmonic current station3.6 mi

• Tide times at Wilmington 2.5 mi
• Tide times at Shinn Point, ICWW 8.5 mi
• Tide times at Orton Point 9.3 mi
• Forecast for Wilmington, NC
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• All tidal current stations in North Carolina

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station CFR1608, bin 10: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.