Hookipa yesterday afternoon.
My body demanded a rest and I'm off the water for a bit (hence the late calls) and I finally found the time to finish editing this video that I started back in November.
4am Surfline
significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina
webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
N
1.9ft @ 20s from 24° (NNE)
Hanalei
Hilo
Kaneohe Bay
At least four different swells in the water today. One is the declining short period NE to E windswell that we've been surfing for the last two weeks. Another one is the declining NW energy that peaked on Sunday. A new long period N swell is starting to show at the buoys with unusually high periods (20-22s). It comes from the intense Gulf of Alaska fetch I marked with a black arrow in the collage of the maps of Dec 30 through Jan 2 below. As you can see, the fetch was mostly aiming well east of us, so we'll mostly get angular spreading energy, notoriously difficult to predict. It should increase in the afternoon, as you can notice on the PACIOOS forecast below (light blue dotted line).
The last energy (recorded by other buoys than the ones reported) is a WNW one generated by the fetch(es) marked by the red arrows. Because of its direction, locally it won't have as big of an effect as the aforementioned N swell.
Home guess for Hookipa is around head high (occasionally bigger) and clean in the morning, with an upward trend in the afternoon.
Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.
Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.
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.
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