Saturday 9 22 18 morning call

I'm back in Maui after a fantastic 5 weeks trip that took me to four different countries, and here's the first morning call of the "new season". Make sure you check the two Indo reports I did while on the road, and specially the Maldive post that you'll find right below this. This is a photo from it.


5am significant buoy readings
South shore
Barbers
1.3ft @ 18s from 203° (SSW)

Lanai
0.9ft @ 18s from 193° (SSW)

Both the local buoys show low but long period energy from the SSW. For this first week I won't have the knowledge of the past fetches, so I won't be able to comment on what's on the buoys. The observation of the Ala Moana webcam shows near flat conditions most of the time. I finally was able to catch a non particularly clean, long period set after 20 minutes of observation, so it's obviously a very inconsistent swell.

As we all know, there's no webcams in Lahaina anymore and I've been contacted by an Ozolio representative seeking for help in finding a business that would be interested in hosting a webcam in Lahaina. Here's one of things he outlined:"A unique thing about our services is that we can add advertisements to display before the stream as well as imbed ad's and overlay images into the stream itself. Along with social media functions like click button Facebook & Youtube live publishing. This would be an incentive for anyone that would consider installing a camera."
Please help me spread the word, if you know someone interested.


North shore
NW
4.6ft @ 10s from 10° (N)            

2ft @ 13s from 310° (WNW)

Pauwela

3.7ft @ 7s from 82° (E)

3.4ft @ 9s from 86° (E)

1ft @ 14s from 341° (NNW)

 

Small windswell at Pauwela, plus one foot 14s from the NNW, but I don't see anything at all on the webcam.

 

Wind map at noon.

 

North Pacific has a weak and remote NW fetch, a weak but closer NNE one and the trades' windswell one, which should be the main source of energy for the time being.

 

South Pacific shows a distant SSW fetch south of the Tasman Sea and a much closer but smaller and partially shadowed by the Big Island SE one.

 

Looks like the waves are going to be pretty small everywhere for the next few days, so I did a full Windy.com run and this is the map predicted to happen on Wednesday 26. Many things to comment upon:
1) that NNW fetch will generate a swell that Surfline calls at 4.5f 12s on next Saturday.

2) that little circulation will pretty much replace the low n.1 and should give us similar energy middle NEXT week (even though, I don't see it yet on Surfline)
3) that tropical disturbance should intensify and track north to the east of us. Winds up to 50 knots and proximity should definitely make for a fairly big E swell, but it's way to early for specifics
4) That typhoon should follow the red line I drew and it's too early to see if it's going to curve back into the NW corner
Obviously, the further away, the less reliable these maps are.

 

Morning sky.