4am significant buoy readings
North shore
Pauwela
8.5ft @ 9s from 45° (NE)
2.3ft @ 6s from 64° (ENE)
2.2ft @ 11s from 3° (N)
0.9ft @ 13s from 19° (NNE)
the NW energy disappeared from all the buoys (that will be the case also tomorrow), but that near NE fetch we had in the last couple of days has produced a remarkable NE 9s swell. Don't remember it? Below are the maps of Nov 20 and 21. The fetch is indicated by the black arrow. Vicinity is key for size.
South shore
Barbers
1.2ft @ 14s from 191° (SSW)
Lanai
1.1ft @ 14s from 191° (SSW)
Background energy continues to keep the south shore from going completely flat. Thousand Peaks was knee high yesterday.
Wind map at noon shows strong easterlies with a bit of south.
With that direction, usually the wind doesn't fill down the coast until later. This is the wind map at 8am in fact, showing no wind in the Kahului area.
North Pacific has a strong NW fetch. That will be responsible for the first pulse of big NW swells that will hit Hawaii next week. Surprisingly, Surfline only predicts 5f 15s for Sunday out of that and IMO that is way under estimated. Pat Caldwell puts 6f 18s for Oahu and that's more like it. Still "peanuts" compared to what it will be Monday/Tuesday though. The black arrow indicates the low that will join the already existing fetch to form a massive cyclone gyre filling most of the central north Pacific 11/23-25. 16f 19s is uncle Pat's prediction for Monday, while Surfline has 16f 18s but happening in the night between Monday and Tuesday. No official call on the Peahi contest on the WSL page yet. It might be too windy for it, which means that there's a bunch of windsurfers interested instead.
Nothing from the South Pacific.
Morning sky.
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