Thursday 3 7 19 morning call

A day of rest for me yesterday. Don't have a shot of the day, but I have this remarkable one by Skeena Heliskiing. I see Teahupoo in it and the skier is about to drop from the lip into the barrel.


4am significant buoy readings
South shore
No indication of southerly energy at the buoys. That micro 18s reading of yesterday was a fluke. The out of season south swell is predicted to only arrive late Friday, but of course we'll know more tomorrow morning.

North shore
N
5.3ft @ 10s from 28° (NNE)

3.7ft @ 14s from 326° (NW)

Hanalei
5.2ft @ 13s from 337° (NNW)

Waimea
3.3ft @ 14s from 335° (NNW)

Pauwela
7.4ft @ 8s from 44° (NE)

4.1ft @ 11s from 36° (NE)

3.3ft @ 14s from 325° (NW)

Small NW swell should be peaking today. Pat Caldwell describes the fetch that generated it in this simple way: A compact, storm-force low pressure system in the Kamchatka corner 3/2 moved into the western Bering Sea 3/3. It is simple, but hard to visualize without the help of some graphic tool, so here's the collage of the fetches maps of those two days. Forgot to put an arrow, but it's the one in the NW corner.



Below is the graph of Hanalei, Waimea and Pauwea (the swell already disappeared at the NW buoys). Nice little slow rising (because distantly generated swell) swell,too bad we will barely be able to see it, as the dominant energy will be the one from the NE. The mix of swells and the active strong trades will make the ocean on the north shore very rough, and the need to find a sheltered spot becomes imperative.


Wind map at noon.


North Pacific only has small fetches today (the weekend's NW swell is not going to be long lasting): a W, a NW and the local ENE windswell one.


Nothing from the South Pacific.


Morning sky.