Hood Canal Bridge tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.2 ktToward SW (219°)

Next slack

5:42 PMPDT

Next max flood

0.9 kt1:43 PM

Next max ebb

0.9 kt8:58 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SW (219°); below it the ebb, running out toward NE (46°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: flood 0.7 kt 1:33 AM, slack 5:08 AM, ebb 0.9 kt 8:18 AM, slack 11:14 AM, flood 0.9 kt 1:43 PM, slack 5:42 PM, ebb 0.9 kt 8:58 PM, slack 11:51 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.

• Port Gamble Bay EntranceHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• South PointHarmonic current station3.2 mi
• Hood Canal Entrance, Foulweather BluffHarmonic current station5.1 mi
• Point No Point, 1.2 mi. E ofHarmonic current station7.1 mi
• Foulweather Bluff, 1.9 mi. NE ofHarmonic current station7.3 mi
• Point No Point, 2.1 mi. E ofHarmonic current station8.1 mi
• Bangor, Hood Canal LB BHarmonic current station8.2 mi
• Olele Point, 1.8 mi. ENE ofHarmonic current station8.6 mi

• Tide times at Port Gamble 2.3 mi
• Tide times at Lofall 3.0 mi
• Tide times at Foulweather Bluff 5.0 mi
• Forecast for Lofall, 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 PUG1603, bin 20: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.