Saturday 2 5 22 morning call

Some pictures from yesterday's wonderful morning at Hookipa, starting from a classic Ian Gentil arc.

5am 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
NW101

6.9ft @ 15s from 308° (WNW)

4.9ft @ 11s from 320° (NW)

Hanalei

6.9ft @ 13s from 304° (WNW)

Waimea
5.6ft @ 13s from 306° (WNW)

Kaneohe Bay
3.4ft @ 9s from 46° (NE)

Hilo
5.3ft @ 9s from 73° (ENE)

The current WNW swell is declining at the upstream buoys while the NW ones show the new pulse at around 7ft 15s. This pulse will only start to arrive locally in the afternoon. Home guess for Hookipa in the morning is for head to head and a half and clean conditions. There should be some trades in the afternoon, even though the SOEST wind maps were not updated during the night, hence they're less reliable.

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon (one day 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.