Friday 1 21 22 morning call

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

Epic foiling conditions triggered the making of this video about the first impressions of the Armstrong HA195 tail and a comparison to the V200 tail.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers is mostly reading NW wrap these days and can't be used to detect small southerly energy. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW101
9.7ft @ 12s from 289° (WNW)

Hanalei

7.6ft @ 14s from 318° (NW)

Waimea
4.7ft @ 13s from 308° (WNW)

Hilo
4.5ft @ 8s from 95° (E)


New WNW swell is at the NW buoy, with good size but a weirdly short period. Below are the maps of Jan 18 through 20 that show the fetch that generated it.

This is the Surfline forecast for the next two days. As you can see, the swell should start with a much longer period than what the NW buoy is showing. It could be a case of the shorter period energy generated closer to the buoy arriving at the buoy earlier than the longer period energy generated further away. In other words, there might be 2-3 feet 18-20s laying underneath those almost 10ft 12s.

Either way, the arrival of this swell in Maui should only be noticeable in the late afternoon, before peaking at warning levels tomorrow morning. Based on the Waimea (at least this one is back) reading, the home guess for Hookipa in the morning is around head to head and a third and clean.

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.
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Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.

North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.