Just before I left Hookipa to go to work. This swell had a wonderful direction for The Point (and almost everywhere else on the north shore).
My pick of Jimmie Hepp's album of the day.
Erik Aeder posted a photo of Paige Alms at Jaws on Friday. Extremely high level of sketchiness, specially for the guy in front.
4am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Local buoys only feeling the NW wrap, so the only way to find out the size of the waves will be Lahaina webcam. The map below is from a week ago (Nov 10) and it shows a SSE fetch, so if there's something, you know where it's from.
North shore
NW101
8.3ft @ 14s from 324° (NW)
4.4ft @ 10s from 330° (NW)
Waimea
8ft @ 14s from 314° (NW)
Pauwela
3.5ft @ 10s from 322° (NW)
Pauwela
6.7ft @ 15s from 312° (NW)
6ft @ 13s from 323° (NW)
Beautiful numbers at the buoys, unfortunately the contemporary presence of different periods/sizes will make the breaking pattern not as predictable. More specifically: the sets of the longer period/bigger energy will break more outside of the sets of the shorter period/smaller energy. So if you sit for the first ones, you'll see a lot of good insiders rolling underneath you, while if you sit on the inside, you'll get caught by the bigger sets.
Below is the graph of the three reported buoys. As expected, this swell, despite being pretty solid at the NW one, didn't get as big locally because of the partially blocked westerly direction. Still pretty big though, Hookipa will probably be around double overhead, can't post a beach report as I have a board meeting at 6am elsewhere.
Wind map at noon.
Kahului Tides
High Tide High Tide Low Tide Low Tide Sunrise Sunset
6:17a +2.4 10:47p +0.2 6:39a 5:46p
The convey belt of the North Pacific's jet stream is working smoothly, you can see three fetches almost chasing each other. 10ft 15s on Thursday predicted by Surfline from the strongest and more distant one.
All quiet down south.
Morning sky.
No comments:
Post a Comment