Wednesday 4 3 19 morning call

The funding campaign for the new Lahaina harbor webcam has raised $1130. 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. Please donate to the page, not to me. I have nothing to do with this campaign, other than the fact that I totally support the cause.

Two shortboard sessions for me yesterday. Unfortunately the waves on the Lahaina side weren't as big as the buoy readings let me hope (and write, I apologize for the wrong call), but they were still cleaner than a blown out Hookipa. I watched Ala Moana during the day and they had much better waves than us. That is why a local webcam in Lahaina is key. Hopefully soon.

In the meantime, here's another teaser for another possible upcoming Tasman Sea swell. Remember the solid fetch we observed on March 31st? You can retrieve it by scrolling down to that day if not. Well, here's how Cloudbreak looked like yesterday (photo by Brothers Surf Tours). Unfortunately, we might just get only knee to waist high out again, if anything, in 4-5 days. Where does all that energy go? Well, part of it on that reef, I'd say. Perfection.


4am significant buoy readings
South shore
Lanai
1.9ft @ 16s from 212° (SW)

SW energy now at almost 2ft 16s. What should I call, the usual knee to waist, I guess. But I think there'll be also very inconsistent bigger sets.

North shore
NW101
6.7ft @ 12s from 334° (NNW)

4.3ft @ 10s from 326° (NW)

Hanalei
8.6ft @ 13s from 324° (NW)
3.8ft @ 9s from 331° (NNW)

Waimea
6.7ft @ 14s from 323° (NW)

2.5ft @ 9s from 315° (NW)

Pauwela
5.2ft @ 13s from 319° (NW)

3.8ft @ 9s from 344° (NNW)

2.7ft @ 11s from 325° (NW)

2.3ft @ 5s from 36° (NE)

Below are the graphs of Hanalei, Waimea and Pauwela together with the Surfline forecast. As you can see, Hanalei went up to 10ft 13s yesterday afternoon. We might wonder again "where does all that energy go?". Surfline has the peak of this NW swell today at 8.5ft 12s, but the graph shows that the peak has happened already. The significant wave height (black line) did go just below 8ft, there should be well overhead waves at Hookipa. Plenty wind too, so we are officially back to the "usual shit". Notice also the many periods and directions, which are a reflection of all the overlapping fetches we have observed in the maps.


Wind map at noon. Much better direction for wind sports on the north shore than yesterday.


North Pacific continues to produce NW fetch after NW fetch.


Another decent Tasman Sea fetch (plus a couple of smaller scattered ones). Fiji's having a great early season.


Morning sky.