Willoughby Bay entrance tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.1 ktToward NNW (330°)

Next slack

8:54 PMEDT

Next max flood

0.2 kt10:46 PM

Next max ebb

0.5 kt5:13 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SE (135°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNW (330°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 0.6 kt 3:41 AM, slack 6:54 AM, flood 0.6 kt 10:21 AM, slack 1:44 PM, ebb 0.5 kt 5:13 PM, slack 8:54 PM, flood 0.2 kt 10:46 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. 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.

• Willoughby Spit, 0.8 mile northwest ofSubordinate current station1.1 mi
• Sewells Point (Naval Station Norfolk)Current meter (NOAA PORTS)2.0 mi
• Sewells Point, pierheadSubordinate current station2.3 mi
• Hampton Roads entrance, midchannelHarmonic current station2.3 mi
• Norfolk Harbor Reach (Buoy R '8')Subordinate current station2.4 mi
• 0.9 mile southwest ofSubordinate current station2.4 mi
• 0.2 mile south ofSubordinate current station2.5 mi
• 0.55 nmi east ofSubordinate current station2.8 mi

• Tide times at Sewells Point 2.1 mi
• Tide times at Old Point Comfort 3.0 mi
• Tide times at Craney Island Light 5.3 mi
• Forecast for Hampton, VA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Virginia

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT5191, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.