Hookipa yesterday.
6am Surfline significant
buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
The relatively low NW energy temporarily allows Barber to register southerly readings, in this case almost 1ft 15s. Took me a while to catch a set on the cam, so do check the
Kihei webcam if interested,
for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW001
NW101
Waimea
Mokapu
New large NNW swell is rising at the outer buoys and it's predicted by Surfline to reach 9ft 15s at sunset. It comes from the fetch indicated by the black arrows in the maps of Oct 7 through 10 below. Seen the direction at the NW buoys, it could also be that this first pulse comes from the smaller fetch indicated by the red arrow, but the bigger energy of the black arrow fetch will be right behind. Home guess for
Hookipa is around head to head and a half in the morning, building to double overhead plus in the late afternoon.
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
