Hookipa yesterday morning.
Hookipa yesterday afternoon. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.
South shore
Barbers
2ft at 17s S 185º
South swell is hitting beautifully in the head high plus range. Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for
size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
7.6ft @ 15s from 346° (NNW)
NW001
8.4ft @ 15s from 333° (NNW)
N
9.9ft @ 16s from 352° (N)
Hanalei
7.1ft @ 15s from 330° (NW)
Waimea
7ft @ 15s from 324° (NW)
Mokapu
4.9ft @ 7s from 75° (ENE)
Yesterday afternoon the new long period NNW swell peaked up locally much more than what the buoy readings suggested. While Waimea was reading 1 or 2ft 20s (can't remember exactly), Pipeline was flat and Sunset Beach was a little overhead, Hookipa was already double overhead (and today it will be even bigger). If you look at the fetches maps collage I posted yesterday, you can see that the highest energy of this swell was aimed to our east. My theory is that we're getting more than Oahu because we're sitting a bit closer to the edge of a solid angular spreading.
This seems to be confirmed by the fact that the N buoy reports the highest reading.
A swell of this size and direction will ignite every spot both on the north shore and the upper west side. Couple that with the background easterly windswell (5ft 7s) and the fairly large south swell, we can pretty much confidently state that today each single surf spot in Maui, from Launiupoko to Jaws, will have waves. That is extremely rare.
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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