Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Tuesday 4 21 26 morning call

Hookipa yesterday.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore
Barbers
      • 1.7ft
        , 13s, SSW 195º
      • 1.4ft
        , 15s, W 275º
Lanai
      • 1.6ft
        , 13s, WSW 250º
Barbers shows some 13s southerly energy while both buoys show some westerly energy too (see fetches maps in the north shore section below). Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. There's definitely sets.

North shore

NW001

            • 4ft
              , 13s, WNW 300º

N

  • 2.2ft
    , 16s, ENE 60º

Hanalei

    • 2.2ft
      , 14s, WNW 285º

Pauwela
            • 4.1ft
              , 7s, ENE 60º
            • 0.8ft
              , 15s, NW 325º
            • 0.7ft
              , 11s, NNE 25º
A couple of fresh energies are going to rise throughout the day. The maps of April 18 through 20 below show the possible source fetches. Seen the westerly direction of the main energy at the outer buoys, I feel like in Maui we're going to get more of the NNE stuff from the fetch indicated by the black arrow instead. Home guess for Hookipa is around chest high with occasional bigger sets and clean with no wind in the early morning, building to overhead by the end of the day (3ft 16s from 28 degrees predicted by Surfline).

 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
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