Off Pleasant Beach tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 2.6 ktToward SE (132°)

Next slack

Sat 12:25 AMPDT

Next max flood

1.4 ktSat 2:36 AM

Next max ebb

3.0 kt9:25 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (330°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (132°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:01 AM, flood 1.1 kt 2:03 AM, slack 4:59 AM, ebb 2.9 kt 8:57 AM, slack 11:52 AM, flood 1.6 kt 2:17 PM, slack 5:37 PM, ebb 3.0 kt 9:25 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 25 at 2:03PM PDT until September 25 at 11:00PM PDT by NWS Seattle WAUntil 11:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 kt. * WHERE...Puget Sound and Hood Canal. * WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT this evening. * 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.

• Rich Passage, LB 8Harmonic current station0.8 mi
• Rich Passage, East endHarmonic current station0.9 mi
• Rich Passage, West endHarmonic current station1.4 mi
• Restoration PointHarmonic current station3.0 mi
• Entrance to Eagle HarborHarmonic current station3.1 mi
• Alki Point, 1 mile West ofHarmonic current station3.8 mi
• Port Washington Narrows, Warren Ave. BridgeHarmonic current station4.5 mi
• Blake Island, S ofHarmonic current station4.8 mi

• Tide times at Clam Bay, Rich Passage 0.8 mi
• Tide times at Port Blakely 1.4 mi
• Tide times at Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island 2.7 mi
• Forecast for Manchester, 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 PCT1701, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.