The windsurfers had a better time than me, here's a couple of photos from this gallery by Jimmie Hepp showing the size of the waves which were mostly in the head to head and a half range, with occasional doubles.
4am significant buoy readings
South shore
W
2.7ft @ 15s from 188° (S)
SW
3.3ft @ 14s from 161° (SSE)
SE
3.3ft @ 14s from 161° (SSE)
Barbers
1.7ft @ 15s from 193° (SSW)
1.5ft @ 12s from 182° (S)
Lanai
1.6ft @ 17s from 195° (SSW)
1.6ft @ 13s from 170° (S)
Numbers still up at the buoys, yesterday the waves at thousand peaks got up to the shoulder high range before I left. But still inconsistent, such is the nature of Tasman Sea swells. There's some sets at Ala Moana, but most of the time it looks like this. Obviously it would be better to have a webcam in Lahaina, if you have an ocean front business/house, please check the benefit of hosting one on Ozolio.
North shore
NW101
4.6ft @ 10s from 18° (NNE)
N
5.2ft @ 10s from 355° (N)
5.2ft @ 10s from 355° (N)
Pauwela
4.4ft @ 11s from 351° (N)
4.1ft @ 9s from 21° (NNE)
NNW swell peaked yesterday and now it's from a more northerly direction, but there should be plenty waves also today, just a bit smaller than yesterday.
Wind model not working today, here's the two models at the bottom of the windguru page.
North Pacific still has that decent NW fetch described by Pat Caldwell yesterday, Surfline predicts 5.6f 14s from 314 on Wednesday. Which means that it should be bigger than the current one (due to its larger period) at Hookipa, a lot smaller (possibly flat) at Honolua due to its more westerly direction. Talking about the latter, I did see a picture of it, but it was from the day before yesterday and it showed very brown murky water.
South Pacific has a small/weak SSE fetch. Better than nothing though.
Morning sky.
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