Friday 3 18 22 morning call

An image from Kanaha yesterday.

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001
3.7ft @ 16s from 323° (NW)

Hanalei

3.4ft @ 13s from 321° (NW)

2.6ft @ 9s from 333° (NNW)

2.3ft @ 11s from 314° (NW)
at 2am there was also 1ft @ 18s from 358° (N)

Waimea

2.7ft @ 13s from 320° (NW)

2.5ft @ 11s from 323° (NW)

1.8ft @ 6s from 46° (NE)

0.8ft @ 20s from 322° (NW)

Pauwela

3.8ft @ 8s from 75° (ENE)

3.7ft @ 12s from 319° (NW)

3.3ft @ 5s from 84° (E)

0.7ft @ 18s from 33° (NE)

New moderate long period NW swell on the rise all day. The 18s reading at Pauwela is from that one, not from the NE. Below are the maps of March 15 and 16 with an arrow to indicate the fetch that generated it. Doesn't look like much, but those are only two snapshots at midnight, the fetch might have got a lot stronger in between.

The new swell will become more and more visible as the day goes. In the morning it's going to be mostly about the remaining 12s energy from the previous swell. Home guess for Hookipa is for around head to head high.


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.