Saturday 12 13 25 morning call

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

This thing flew by.

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

• • • 1.3ft

      , 13s, SW 225º

Very small southerly energy at Lanai and onshore flow. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW101

• • • • • • 4ft

            , 11s, NNW 340º

Waimea

• • • • • • 5.6ft

            , 11s, N 350º

Pauwela

• • • • • • 5.3ft

            , 11s, NNW 345º
          • 1.1ft

            , 9s, N 0º
          • 1.1ft

            , 6s, N 355º

5ft 11s of NW energy at Pauwela are predicted to slowly decrease to 4ft 11s by the end of the day. Home guess for Hookipa is around head to overhead high and very clean with Kona flow.

 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

Friday 12 12 25 morning call

No photos from yesterday, this is the video of that accident at Nazare I tried to post a week ago, but failed. The Big Wave Challange contest is scheduled to start tonight at 11pm here.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

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Surfline is down, no buoy info. Pauwela reads 7.5ft 13s on the Noaa page, but that the sum of all energies in the water, so it's not comparable to the break down of all different swells that Surfline does instead. Looking at the Paia Bay webcam, looks like fairly big waves also today.

 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

Thursday 12 11 25 morning call

Light Kona and big waves made Hookipa epic yesterday.

4-5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore

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No southerly energy at the buoys. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW001

• • • • • • 7.8ft

            , 10s, NNW 335º

Hanalei

• • 6.9ft

    , 13s, NW 310º
  • 5.5ft

    , 11s, WNW 290º
  • 4.6ft

    , 7s, NNW 330º

Waimea

• • • • • • 7.5ft

            , 13s, NNW 330º
          • 3.5ft

            , 10s, NNW 340º
          • 2.1ft

            , 4s, WNW 300º

Pauwela

• • • • • • 6.9ft

            , 13s, NNW 330º
          • 2.7ft

            , 8s, ENE 65º
          • 0.8ft

            , 10s, NW 320º

More NW energy and Kona wind today, at least for the first half of the day, before the arrival of the weak front (see satellite picture below) makes the wind switch onshore. Home guess for Hookipa is around double overhead with occasional bigger sets.

 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

Wednesday 12 10 25 morning call

Hookipa yesterday morning. WSL QS series contest at Pipeline should stream here.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore

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No southerly energy at the buoys and some lines on the cam. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW001

• • • • • • 6ft

            , 15s, NNW 330º
          • 3.2ft

            , 12s, NW 320º

NW101

• • 7.9ft

    , 14s, NW 325º

Waimea

• • • • • • 5.1ft

            , 15s, NNW 330º
          • 3.7ft

            , 13s, NW 325º

Pauwela

• • • • • • 4.8ft

            , 15s, NW 320º
          • 3.9ft

            , 13s, NW 325º
          • 2.6ft

            , 8s, ENE 70º

New long period NW swell is at the buoys. It comes from the fetch that happened on Dec 6 though 9 below. Home guess for Hookipa is around double overhead and extremely clean thanks to the light southerly flow.

 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