Pocomoke Sound Approach tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.4 ktToward SSW (196°)

Next slack

6:58 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.9 kt10:31 AM

Next max ebb

0.9 kt4:45 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (9°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSW (196°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:51 AM, ebb 0.9 kt 4:45 AM, slack 6:58 AM, flood 0.9 kt 10:31 AM, slack 2:27 PM, ebb 0.9 kt 5:16 PM, slack 7:36 PM, flood 0.8 kt 10:47 PM.

• Gale Warning Gale Warning issued September 26 at 1:12AM EDT until September 26 at 10:00PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VAUntil 10:00 PM
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  * WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and waves 4 to 7 ft. * WHERE...Chesapeake Bay from Smith Point to Windmill Point VA and Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA. * WHEN...Until 10 PM EDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous waves 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.

• Milby Point, 5.3 nmi WNW ofSubordinate current station3.2 mi
• Stingray Point, 12.5 miles east ofSubordinate current station6.3 mi
• Windmill Point Light, 8.3 nmi ESE ofSubordinate current station6.7 mi
• Watts Island, 4 miles south ofSubordinate current station7.0 mi
• Nassawadox Point, 1.9 nmi NW ofSubordinate current station9.3 mi
• Tangier Sound Light, 0.5 nmi east ofSubordinate current station11 mi
• Bluff Point, 7.2 nmi east ofCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)11 mi
• Stingray Point, 5.5 miles east ofSubordinate current station12 mi

• Tide times at Gaskins Point, Occohannock Creek 5.9 mi
• Tide times at Rappahannock Light 7.1 mi
• Tide times at Harborton, Pungoteague Creek 7.6 mi
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT5611, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.