Tacoma, Commencement Bay, Sitcum Waterway

Near Tacoma, WA · Marginal · next low tide 7:33 PM

Today: low 5:31 AM (-0.4 ft), high 1:46 PM (11.1 ft), low 7:33 PM (7.4 ft), high 11:44 PM (9.1 ft). Predicted at the gauge, hour by hour, on the station’s own clock. The band is daylight; the tick is now.

The week: seven days of the tide on one height scale, daylight shaded, highs as white dots and lows as grey. Plan Saturday from here.

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The gauge, with the reporting buoy on it. The arrow is the wind at the buoy.

On the water

Marginal

Water: 56°F
Pressure: 1017 mb

Buoy TCNW1 reports water temperature only - wind and seas unknown

Buoy TCNW1, on the gauge. It reports no wave height, so seas are not in the rating. Whether it is workable out there, not whether anything will bite. Nobody can forecast that.

Reading this honestly

The buoy is on the gauge, which is the best case: what it reports is what the water is doing here.

The rating is about wind, seas and warnings - whether a small boat can work comfortably and safely. It is not a bite forecast, and the tide times above are not one either. Tide stage matters to a great many species and every angler has a theory about which stage; we are not going to convert those theories into a number and present it as data.

Other Washington gauges

SEATTLE (Madison St.), Elliott Bay Everett Vancouver Port Angeles Priest Point Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal Longview Tulalip

Sources: NOAA CO-OPS predictions for gauge 9446484 (hourly and high/low, relative to mean lower low water, local time; actual water level varies with wind and pressure, sometimes by a foot or more). NDBC buoy TCNW1 latest observation. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations (gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc). Marine products from the National Weather Service. Coast from the US Census Bureau county file.