I was on the Eureka waterfront taking photos of our typical winter solstice high tides at the time you were posting this info. 8’7” plus a little storm surge with some flooding in King Salmon just south of us.
The strangest thing happens with these storms coming up the coast from the south. The radar image looks like disaster for Eureka but Cape Mendocino seems to deflect them away from us and they finally come ashore between here and Crescent City...