Peale Passage, South end tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

Mon 1:31 AMPDT

Next max flood

0.6 ktMon 3:57 AM

Next max ebb

0.5 kt9:56 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (346°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNE (16°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:56 AM, flood 0.6 kt 3:16 AM, slack 6:34 AM, ebb 0.4 kt 9:18 AM, slack 12:41 PM, flood 0.5 kt 3:12 PM, slack 6:01 PM, ebb 0.5 kt 9:56 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 27 at 2:09PM 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 Monday 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.

• Dana PassageHarmonic current station1.2 mi
• Squaxin Passage, North of Hunter PointHarmonic current station1.5 mi
• Totten Inlet EntranceHarmonic current station2.9 mi
• Budd Inlet EntranceHarmonic current station2.9 mi
• Eld Inlet entranceSubordinate current station2.9 mi
• Peale Passage, North endHarmonic current station3.2 mi
• Pickering Passage, West of Squaxin IslandHarmonic current station3.8 mi
• Devils Head, West ofHarmonic current station4.7 mi

• Tide times at Dofflemeyer Point, Boston Hbr., Budd Inlet 2.4 mi
• Tide times at Henderson Inlet 2.7 mi
• Tide times at Arcadia, Totten Inlet 2.8 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 PUG1541, bin 9: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.