Lower Brunswick Range tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 1.0 ktToward NW (322°)

Next slack

10:51 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.7 kt7:35 AM

Next max ebb

1.8 kt1:49 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NW (322°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (140°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.8 kt 1:15 AM, slack 5:03 AM, flood 1.7 kt 7:35 AM, slack 10:51 AM, ebb 1.8 kt 1:49 PM, slack 5:45 PM, flood 1.6 kt 8:13 PM, slack 11:16 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.

• Port of Wilmington, South EndHarmonic current station1.4 mi
• Upper Big I RangeHarmonic current station1.7 mi
• 0.4 mile north ofSubordinate current station1.8 mi
• Dram Tree PointHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Campbell Island, East SideHarmonic current station2.8 mi
• 1.8 miles north of mouthSubordinate current station3.5 mi
• State Pier, N end, sidelookingHarmonic current station3.6 mi
• Keg Island, West SideHarmonic current station4.3 mi

• Tide times at Wilmington 4.9 mi
• Tide times at Orton Point 6.9 mi
• Tide times at Sunny Point Army Base, Wharf no.3 9.2 mi
• Forecast for Silver Lake, NC
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in North Carolina

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station CFR1610, bin 10: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.