Deception Pass (Narrows) tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

Sat 3:43 AMPDT

Next max flood

5.1 ktSat 12:25 AM

Next max ebb

6.2 ktSat 6:25 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward ESE (108°); below it the ebb, running out toward W (277°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:57 AM, ebb 6.0 kt 5:39 AM, slack 9:14 AM, flood 5.5 kt 11:51 AM, slack 3:02 PM, ebb 7.0 kt 5:51 PM, slack 9:48 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 25 at 2:03PM PDT until September 26 at 5:00AM PDT by NWS Seattle WAUntil Sat 5:00 AM
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  * WHAT...Southwest winds 20 to 30 kt. * WHERE...Northern Inland Waters Including The San Juan Islands. * WHEN...Until 5 AM PDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.

  A Small Craft Advisory means that wind speeds of 21 to 33 knots and/or seas 10 feet or higher are expected to produce hazardous wave conditions to small craft. Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels should avoid navigating in these 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.

• Yokeko Point, Deception PassHarmonic current station1.4 mi
• Skagit Bay channel, SW of Hope IslandHarmonic current station3.0 mi
• Burrows Bay, 0.5 mile east of Allan ISubordinate current station4.3 mi
• Point Colville, 3.0 nm east of (Lawson Reef, 1 nmHarmonic current station4.5 mi
• Allan PassHarmonic current station5.2 mi
• Rosario StraitHarmonic current station6.1 mi
• Burrows PassHarmonic current station6.1 mi
• Skagit Bay, 1 mi. south of Goat IslandHarmonic current station6.2 mi

• Tide times at Deception Pass St. Park, Bowman Bay, Fidalgo I 0.7 mi
• Tide times at Cornet Bay, Whidbey Island, Deception Pass 1.0 mi
• Tide times at Yokeko Point, Deception Pass 1.4 mi
• Forecast for Ault Field, WA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Washington

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station PUG1701, bin 33: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.