Sunday 11 24 19 morning call

I took some photos in Maui yesterday, but when I compared my best one to this one of Mickey Bruneau at Pipe by Liquid Barrel, I burst into a laugh and ditched it...


5am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No indication of southerly energy at the buoys, the Lahaina webcam reflects that, even though there's actually little lines and people surfing, so check it out yourself if interested.


North shore
NW101
7.8ft @ 16s from 308° (WNW)

Waimea
4.1ft @ 8s from 40° (NE)

2.9ft @ 13s from 316° (NW)

2.5ft @ 18s from 310° (WNW)

Pauwela

6.8ft @ 9s from 71° (ENE)

4.3ft @ 13s from 326° (NW)

3.7ft @ 7s from 62° (ENE)

2.2ft @ 4s from 71° (ENE)

 

New large WNW swell on the rise all day today. Below are the graphs of NW and Waimea (it doesn't show at Pauwela yet) and the Surfline forecast. The red arrows indicate the swell on the buoys graph, while on the forecast it's the orange line (blue being the windswell). On the post Buoys to Maui travel times and Maui's shadow lines you see that at 18s, those 2.5ft at 5am at Waimea will take 3.6h to get here, so expect the swell to start being progressively more noticeable in the early morning. Should be fully filled in by sunset. Pretty west though, Hookipa should still be unblocked (shadow line at 305), but the spots down the coast should get less energy than from an unblocked direction. On the same post, for example, we learn that Kanaha has a shadow line around 320.

In addition to that, there's still 4.3ft 13s of declining old NW swell and almost 7ft 9s from 71. Plenty energy in the water, once again the issue will be the wind, which is going to finally start turning more and more ESE (so not as bad... for surfing, I mean).

Wind map at noon.

Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset

1:16a  +2.4  12:30p  +1.9   7:14a  +0.7   6:58p  -0.3    6:43a   5:45p    
 

North Pacific has a NW fetch which is almost entirely aiming to our west, but we should get some angular spreading


South Pacific yesterday's long fetch is now aiming to our east, but, also in this case, we should get some angular spreading. Next weekend could be have a small swell.


Morning sky.