Remember: don't look at it with the eyes of the surfer. If someone is up on his foil, he's having fun.
4am significant buoy readings
South shore
W
1.4ft @ 18s from 124° (ESE)
SW
1.7ft @ 17s from 179° (S)
SE
2.4ft @ 17s from 130° (ESE)
Lovely long period southerly energy at the outer buoys, below is the collage of the maps of October 15, 16 and 17. Three solid days of wave generation, but the swell will last more than that, because the shorter period energy will take more than 7 days to get here. The fetch of the 15th was oriented to the east of us (we're getting the angular spreading) and that is confirmed by the higher numbers at the SE buoy. There will be waves on the south shores, but they will be inconsistent. That is common to all the onsets of south swell, in particular the ones of the angular spreadings.
North shore
NW
3.1ft @ 17s from 330° (NW)
Waimea
2.4ft @ 11s from 350° (N)
1.2ft @ 20s from 315° (NW)
Mokapu
Mokapu
5.3ft @ 8s from 40° (NE)
As predicted, we have new long period NW energy at the buoys. The numbers are not particularly big yet, this swell is in fact predicted by Surfline to peak on Monday at 7f 15s.
The windswell is down to 5.3f 8s from 40 degrees at Mokapu and Waimea still shows 2.4f 11s from 350 of the old swell that should decline throughout all day.
So I'm calling for a slow increase of the new NW swell and a slow decline of old NW one and the windswell. A mix of swells that will most likely make me prefer the south shore. Also because I want to give shortboard foiling a second attempt and it will be a lot easier over there.
I'll post beach reports later in the morning, stay tuned for those.
Wind map at noon shows a lovely lack of trades with one local breezes.The windswell is down to 5.3f 8s from 40 degrees at Mokapu and Waimea still shows 2.4f 11s from 350 of the old swell that should decline throughout all day.
So I'm calling for a slow increase of the new NW swell and a slow decline of old NW one and the windswell. A mix of swells that will most likely make me prefer the south shore. Also because I want to give shortboard foiling a second attempt and it will be a lot easier over there.
I'll post beach reports later in the morning, stay tuned for those.
North Pacific shows the three fetches we've been seeing for the last theer days:
- the west fetch of Typhoon Lan that finally moved north a bit (west swell rising on Thursday and lasting several days)
- the wide but not very intense NW fetch
- the easterly windswell fetch
South Pacific shows a small fetch SE of New Zealand
Morning sky: no trades, no clouds.
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