Hookipa yesterday at sunset.
4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers is mostly reading NW wrap and can't be used to
detect small southerly energy. Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for
size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW001
15.3ft @ 19s from 285° (WNW)
Hanalei
11.1ft @ 20s from 313° (NW)
Waimea
9.7ft @ 20s from 311° (NW)
Pauwela
New long period WNW swell vigorously ramped up at the buoys. Despite the massive 15ft 19s at the NW001 they're not gonna run the Eddie. The swell is pretty west (285 and 294 at the NW buoys) but it's big and long period enough to wrap around most upstream land masses. Below are the graphs of NW001, Pauwela and the Surfline forecast, which calls for 8ft 18s (after the wrap) at sunset. Home guess for Hookipa in the morning is for inconsistent overhead sets, building throughout the day but still with a slow arrival pace, much smaller towards Kahului. Kihei side will likely see some action too. Definitely too west for Honolua (north Molokai shadow line at 335), but with that magnitude, it's not impossible that once in a long while a set might somehow find its way there late in the day. And if it does, it might even be fairly big. Actually, the south Molokai shadow line for the Bay sits at 276, but I have no idea how it breaks if travels that way. Would think it tends to close out more.
Btw, to get to the graphs of the individual buoys, click on the Pauwela link and replace the buoy ID at the end of the web page address.
Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.
Wind map at noon (two days old). 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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