Saturday 3 26 22 morning call

Cody Young (I think) at Hookipa yesterday mid day.

3am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
SE
3.3ft @ 12s from 162° (SSE)

SW
2.5ft @ 13s from 181° (S)

Barbers

4.9ft @ 0s from 188° (S)

1ft @ 5s from 250° (WSW)

With a non-sense reading of 4.9ft 0s and no signs of the southerly energy present in the water (as shown by the SE and SW buoys) I think we can consider the Surfline Barbers readings unreliable. As a matter of fact, here's the readings of the NOAA page of the buoy (which I never prefer, as it doesn't separate the different swells in the water).

Plenty energy all day yesterday (some head high sets on the cam). Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW101
3.1ft @ 12s from 330° (NW)

Hanalei
2.9ft @ 12s from 319° (NW)

Waimea
3ft @ 12s from 322° (NW)

Pauwela

5.2ft @ 8s from 24° (NNE)

2.8ft @ 13s from 322° (NW)

New small NW swell is in the water, but nothing to get particularly excited about. Below are the maps of Mar 18 to 21, which I used already on the 21st to show (with a black arrow) the fetch that generated the previous (much bigger) NW swell. On the same collage, this morning I added a yellow arrow to indicate the fetch that generated this new one. As you can see, not a particularly big nor strong fetch and very far away, hence the small amount of energy at the buoys.

Home guess for Hookipa is around head to head and a third high, mostly made by the peaky short period NNE energy together with some NW lines in the mix. Still stormy.

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.