Devils Head, West of tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.6 ktToward SSE (156°)

Next slack

Sun 2:12 AMPDT

Next max flood

0.2 ktSun 4:01 AM

Next max ebb

0.7 ktSun 9:18 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (334°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (156°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:56 AM, slack 4:34 AM, ebb 0.6 kt 8:40 AM, slack 12:59 PM, flood 0.3 kt 3:28 PM, slack 5:50 PM, ebb 0.7 kt 9:53 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.

• Drayton PassageHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Dana PassageHarmonic current station3.7 mi
• Peale Passage, South endHarmonic current station4.7 mi
• Balch Passage, NE of Eagle IslandHarmonic current station5.0 mi
• Nisqually Reach, 0.5 miles South of Lyle PointHarmonic current station5.2 mi
• Pitt Passage, NE of Pitt IslandHarmonic current station5.7 mi
• Ketron Island, West ofHarmonic current station6.2 mi
• Squaxin Passage, North of Hunter PointHarmonic current station6.2 mi

• Tide times at Devils Head, Drayton Passage 1.3 mi
• Tide times at Henderson Inlet 2.3 mi
• Tide times at Longbranch, Filucy Bay 3.8 mi
• Forecast for Longbranch, 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 PUG1538, bin 22: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.