South Point tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.9 ktToward NE (41°)

Next slack

11:44 PMPDT

Next max flood

0.7 ktSat 1:52 AM

Next max ebb

1.0 ktSat 7:59 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SW (230°); below it the ebb, running out toward NE (41°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: flood 0.6 kt 1:17 AM, slack 3:57 AM, ebb 1.0 kt 7:17 AM, slack 10:45 AM, flood 0.9 kt 1:18 PM, slack 4:50 PM, ebb 0.9 kt 8:15 PM, slack 11:44 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.

• Hood Canal BridgeHarmonic current station3.2 mi
• Bangor, Hood Canal LB BHarmonic current station5.1 mi
• Port Gamble Bay EntranceHarmonic current station5.1 mi
• Hood Canal Entrance, Foulweather BluffHarmonic current station7.6 mi
• Liberty Bay (entrance), Port OrchardHarmonic current station8.2 mi
• Agate Passage, north endSubordinate current station8.9 mi
• Agate Passage, south endHarmonic current station9.2 mi
• Hazel PointHarmonic current station9.9 mi

• Tide times at Lofall 1.0 mi
• Tide times at Port Gamble 5.2 mi
• Tide times at Bangor Wharf 5.6 mi
• Forecast for Lofall, WA
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• All tidal current stations in Washington

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station PUG1602, bin 48: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.