Friday 8 8 25 morning call

Big waves and heavy wipeouts in the first day of the Taehupoo contest. It takes about 4 days for 16s waves to get from there to here, so we're going to have waves at least till Monday. Today's streaming will be here.

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

• • • 2.7ft

      , 13s, SSW 205º
    • 2ft

      , 17s, S 190º

Lanai

• • • 2.9ft

      , 14s, S 190º
    • 2ft

      , 17s, SSW 200º

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The buoys confirm overlapping long period pulses of southerly energies, waves should be pumping. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

Hanalei

• • 1.4ft

    , 13s, WNW 300º

Waimea

• • • • • • 1.2ft

            , 13s, WNW 285º

Mokapu

• • • • • • 8.1ft

            , 8s, ENE 70º

The westerly directions at Hanalei and Waimea confirm that the tiny WNW readings are from the Japan's storm, so we didn't and won't see much of it (too small and too west). The easterly windswell instead shows a healthy 8ft at 8s. Home guess for Hookipa is around waist high with occasionally bigger sets. Bigger on eastern exposures.

Tropical storm Henriette (check the satellite image below) is going to do pretty much what Gil did: pass to our NE, kill the trades and provide a longer period east swell. Sunday is shaping up to be a carbon copy of last Wednesday.

 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