Wednesday 4 6 22 morning call

Hookipa in the morning.


Kanaha mid day, Zane Schweitzer mid air.

Hookipa late afternoon.

5am 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
NW101
5.4ft @ 9s from 95° (E)

Hanalei

3.6ft @ 8s from 63° (ENE)

2.3ft @ 11s from 331° (NNW)

1.8ft @ 10s from 339° (NNW)

Waimea

2ft @ 12s from 331° (NNW)

2ft @ 5s from 31° (NE)

1.9ft @ 10s from 336° (NNW)

Pauwela

5.1ft @ 8s from 77° (ENE)

3.2ft @ 11s from 333° (NNW)

New NW energy is predicted to pick up during the day, but there's no sign of it yet at the buoys. Below are the maps of April 2 through 5 showing the fetch that generated it.


Below is the Maui North Shore Surfline forecast for the next two days. Although I like the "body parts" height indications, I usually never include their guess for the size as it does not specify for which spot. My home guess for Hookipa today based on the buoy readings is for around head high and it's still only a guess that could be wrong. But one thing I know for sure: it's not going to be waist to shoulder high at Hookipa AND Kanaha AND the harbor at the same time, just to name a few spots. Put your time into observing the size at the spots of your interest under different size, period and direction of swells and in short time you'll do better than a generic computer model.

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.