Thursday 3 21 18 morning call

The funding campaign for the new Lahaina harbor webcam has raised $495. Thanks a lot and let's keep them coming. I'm gonna start my posts with an update like this until it reaches its goal of $2,000.

A day of forced rest for me yesterday.
As pointed out below, the new NW swell came up much more than I expected in the afternoon. This is my pick out of Jimmie Hepp's gallery of the day and it's a solid mast high wave (4m/13ft face). Beautiful long period and not too windy conditions, it looked pretty epic to me. The buoy was reading around 4-5ft 18s at this time.


5am significant buoy readings
South shore
Lanai
1.3ft @ 12s from 224° (SW)

A tiny reading at Lanai only doesn't sound promising and in fact Ala Moana looks minimal. Might have to call it flat on our south shores.


North shore
NW101
6.7ft @ 14s from 344° (NNW)

4.5ft @ 8s from 349° (NNW)

Hanalei
6.6ft @ 15s from 313° (NW)

Waimea
6.4ft @ 14s from 317° (NW)

Pauwela
5.4ft @ 15s from 320° (NW)

2.9ft @ 12s from 335° (NNW)

1.3ft @ 10s from 336° (NNW)

The NW swell came up a lot faster than I predicted yesterday. Below is the collage of my wrong prediction (far left), the graph of Pauwela this morning and the Surfline forecast. Pauwela's graph shows that the swell peaked already, but the readings at all the other buoys show that it won't come down all that much. So a still pretty solid day out there, just a little smaller that yesterday at sunset where the biggest sets were double overhead plus and closing out the channel at times.


Wind map at noon.


North Pacific has a few scattered fetches. The big storm north of us is now aiming its strong winds at the mainland.


Couple of small fetches also down south.


Morning sky.