Thursday 5 16 24 morning call

Hookipa yesterday.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore
Barbers

• • • 3.1ft

      , 15s, SSW 200º
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    • 1.5ft

      , 20s, SW 220º

Lanai

• • • 1.7ft

      , 17s, S 190º
    • 1.3ft

      , 20s, SSW 195º

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The two swells I discussed yesterday are at the buoys but the wind is onshore.Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW101

• • • • • • 8.3ft

            , 11s, NW 325º

Hanalei

• • 7.6ft

    , 11s, NW 325º

Waimea

• • • • • • 3.9ft

            , 11s, NNW 330º

Pauwela

• • • • • • 3.5ft

            , 7s, E 85º
          • 1.8ft

            , 12s, NNW 330º

New medium period NW swell picked up at the upstream buoys and will rise all day locally (Surfline calls for 5ft 11s at sunset). Below are the maps of May 13 and 14 that show the fetch that generated it. Home guess for Hookipa is around waist to shoulder high in the morning, building to head to overhead by the end of the day.

 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