Saturday 1 28 23 morning call

No photos from yesterday, this is an image posted by OneMoreFoto.

7am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 0.5ft

  , 17s, SSW 200º

Barbers

• 0.4ft

  , 17s, SSW 205º

Tiny long period SSW energy at the buoys. Below are the maps of January 22 though 24 that show the fetch that generated it. Mostly angular spreading to start with, but with portions of direct aim later on. Surfline shows a very gradual increase over the weekend with a peak of 2ft 17 and 2.5ft 16s by Tuesday/Wednesday.

Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency (down at the moment).

North shore
NW001

• 5.3ft

  , 11s, NNW 340º
• 4.1ft

  , 8s, N 10º
• 1ft

  , 16s, WNW 285º

Hanalei

• 5.9ft

  , 12s, NNW 330º
• 2.4ft

  , 9s, NNE 30º

Waimea

• 7.4ft

  , 12s, NNW 335º
• 3.3ft

  , 5s, NNE 25º

NW energy continues its very slow decline at the buoys, now coming more from the NNW. The NW buoy shows also 1ft 16s from 285 and that could be energy from a very long period westerly swell that is predicted to arrive tomorrow (when we'll look at the fetches).
Home guess for Hookipa is around head and a half and possibly a bit cleaner than the last few days, if you catch it in a moment with no wind between the frequent rain squalls.

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.