Sunday, April 12, 2020

Sunday 4 11 20 morning call

Yesterday was another great day of surfing on the north shore. Size was a bit smaller, but conditions were pristine thanks to the light kona wind. Things changed for the worse around 3pm when the wind went sideon trades. That marked the end of a series of excellent days of surfing, thanks to the lack of wind. The video below is from Friday.




4am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
2.4ft @ 13s from 188° (S)

Lanai
2.3ft @ 13s from 182° (S)
Lovely numbers at the buoy, the south shore can definitely be an alternative today, seen the sideon wind on the north shore.
Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.


North shore
NW101
7ft @ 9s from 334° (NNW)

Hanalei
4.8ft @ 9s from 319° (NW)
2.7ft @ 11s from 342° (NNW)

Waimea
4ft @ 9s from 334° (NNW)
3.2ft @ 11s from 350° (N)

Pauwela
3.7ft @ 9s from 322° (NW)
2.8ft @ 11s from 340° (NNW)
2ft @ 6s from 339° (NNW)

11s going down, 9s coming up. There will still be waves at Hookipa (head high at least I guess), but poor conditions because of light NE winds. Unless you catch it now under the rain.

Wind map at noon (the other ones can be found at link n.-2 of GP's meteo websites list in the right column).


North Pacific fetches map (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner):
WNW fetch is pretty solid (8.5ft 15s from 309 predicted by Surfline on Thursday). The nearby low is now aiming to our east, but we should still get some angular spreading.


South Pacific fetches map (about 7 days travel time from east of New Zealand):
nice fetch in the Tasman Sea, but the strongest part is blocked by New Zealand.


Morning sky.

1 comment:

Yannos said...

Love the pop up! Head up all the way:) Makes such a difference...
Looks like you're doing well on Maui. Wish we were stuck there but we left too early this winter. Being in Sweden with all this going on is not very fun...