Thursday 1 20 22 morning call

Hookipa yesterday morning.

Hookipa yesterday afternoon. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.


This ship with a balloon tethered to it and an airplane circling around has been puzzling the north shore residents for a couple of days. Kinda fun to listen to the many wild guesses of what they're doing.

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
5.6ft @ 14s from 279° (W)

NW001

6.5ft @ 13s from 281° (WNW)

Hanalei

6.4ft @ 13s from 303° (WNW)

WNW declined at the NW buoys and went even more west. Hanalei still reads similar numbers to yesterday, so the decline might be felt later in the day locally. Home guess for Hookipa is for head to head and a half and possibly even more inconsistent than yesterday because of the westerly direction (if we believe the NW buoys direction).

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.
N/A

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.