Eld Inlet entrance tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.5 ktToward NNE (28°)

Next slack

1:17 PMPDT

Next max flood

1.0 kt4:13 PM

Next max ebb

0.6 kt10:02 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SW (224°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNE (28°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:21 AM, flood 1.3 kt 4:17 AM, slack 7:20 AM, ebb 0.6 kt 10:02 AM, slack 1:17 PM, flood 1.0 kt 4:13 PM, slack 6:45 PM, ebb 0.9 kt 10:22 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 28 at 2:41AM PDT until September 29 at 5:00PM PDT by NWS Seattle WAUntil Tue 5:00 PM
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  * WHAT...South winds 20 to 30 kt. * WHERE...Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound and Hood Canal. * WHEN...From 5 PM this afternoon to 5 PM PDT Tuesday. * 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. 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.

• Budd Inlet EntranceHarmonic current station0.7 mi
• Squaxin Passage, North of Hunter PointHarmonic current station2.2 mi
• Peale Passage, South endHarmonic current station2.9 mi
• Totten Inlet EntranceHarmonic current station3.0 mi
• Dana PassageHarmonic current station3.3 mi
• Libby Point, Hammersley InletHarmonic current station4.5 mi
• Peale Passage, North endHarmonic current station5.0 mi
• Pickering Passage, West of Squaxin IslandHarmonic current station5.0 mi

• Tide times at Dofflemeyer Point, Boston Hbr., Budd Inlet 1.5 mi
• Tide times at Arcadia, Totten Inlet 3.5 mi
• Tide times at Barron Point, Little Skookum Inlet Entrance 3.6 mi
• Forecast for Olympia, 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 PCT1861, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.