Pickering Passage, off Graham Point tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 1.6 ktToward NNE (19°)

Next slack

Sun 1:48 AMPDT

Next max flood

1.8 ktSun 4:27 AM

Next max ebb

1.9 kt10:45 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SSW (198°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNE (19°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:20 AM, flood 1.6 kt 3:52 AM, slack 7:02 AM, ebb 1.5 kt 10:05 AM, slack 1:08 PM, flood 1.6 kt 3:51 PM, slack 7:13 PM, ebb 1.9 kt 10:45 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.

• Pickering Passage, West of Squaxin IslandHarmonic current station2.0 mi
• Peale Passage, North endHarmonic current station2.1 mi
• Totten Inlet EntranceHarmonic current station4.2 mi
• Libby Point, Hammersley InletHarmonic current station4.5 mi
• Squaxin Passage, North of Hunter PointHarmonic current station4.9 mi
• Peale Passage, South endHarmonic current station5.3 mi
• Pickering Passage, North endHarmonic current station5.4 mi
• Hammersley Inlet, west of Skookum PointSubordinate current station6.0 mi

• Tide times at Walkers Landing, Pickering Passage 2.4 mi
• Tide times at McMicken Island, Case Inlet 3.0 mi
• Tide times at Arcadia, Totten Inlet 3.5 mi
• Forecast for Grapeview, 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 PUG1547, bin 16: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.