Providence River, Fox Point Reach tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

4:09 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.2 kt6:40 AM

Next max ebb

0.3 kt12:13 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NW (326°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (141°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:57 AM, slack 4:09 AM, flood 0.2 kt 6:40 AM, slack 9:21 AM, ebb 0.3 kt 12:13 PM, slack 2:19 PM, flood 0.2 kt 6:55 PM, slack 9:30 PM.

• Storm Warning Storm Warning issued September 26 at 1:58AM EDT until September 26 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Boston/Norton MAUntil 8:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 50 kt and waves 2 to 4 feet. * WHERE...In Massachusetts coastal waters, Boston Harbor. In Rhode Island coastal waters, Narragansett Bay. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Storm force winds and hazardous waves 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.

• Nayatt Point, WNW ofSubordinate current station5.9 mi
• Warren, Warren RiverSubordinate current station7.9 mi
• Patience I. and Warwick Neck, betweenSubordinate current station10 mi
• Patience Island, narrows east ofSubordinate current station11 mi
• Hog Island, northwest ofSubordinate current station12 mi
• Mount Hope Point, northeast ofSubordinate current station13 mi
• Common Fence Point, west ofSubordinate current station13 mi
• Fall River entranceHarmonic current station14 mi

• Tide times at Providence 0.2 mi
• Tide times at Rumford, Seekonk River 2.5 mi
• Tide times at Pawtuxet, Pawtuxet Cove 3.3 mi
• Forecast for Providence, RI
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station nb0101, bin 8: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.