5am significant buoy readings
South shore
Barbers
1.8ft @ 13s from 250° (WSW)
Lanai
1.6ft @ 13s from 206° (SSW)
South swell looking pretty marginal at the buoys.
Completely disregard the directions (specially Barbers), as they are heavily influenced by whatever else is in the water. How can I be so sure? Because I remember the position of the fetch, which I now offer you again in the below collage of the maps of March 1, 2 and 3. Just to the east of New Zealand means between 180 and 200.
I had a couple of reports from Lahaina of knee to waist high waves and that seems to be confirmed by the Ala Moana webcam where it took me long time to see a waist high plus set like the one below. Flat in the meantime. Once again, a local webcam in Lahaina would be a lot better, please contact Ozolio if you can host one.
Completely disregard the directions (specially Barbers), as they are heavily influenced by whatever else is in the water. How can I be so sure? Because I remember the position of the fetch, which I now offer you again in the below collage of the maps of March 1, 2 and 3. Just to the east of New Zealand means between 180 and 200.
I had a couple of reports from Lahaina of knee to waist high waves and that seems to be confirmed by the Ala Moana webcam where it took me long time to see a waist high plus set like the one below. Flat in the meantime. Once again, a local webcam in Lahaina would be a lot better, please contact Ozolio if you can host one.
North shore
NW101
2ft @ 17s from 338° (NNW)
Hanalei
0.8ft @ 20s from 320° (NW)
Waimea
0.8ft @ 20s from 314° (NW)
Pauwela
9.3ft @ 8s from 50° (NE)
New NW long period swell on the slow rise all day, but 9ft 8s from 50 is obviously going to be the dominant energy in the water. Choose a spot that likes that and that is possibly sheltered by the wind.
The Legends of the Bay contest has officially been called on for the weekend. Below is the tentative schedule for both days. With 4.8ft 15s from 314 is not going to be a classic big day at the Bay, as the NW sets will be pretty inconsistent while the NE swell might introduce mixed energy in between them.
The Legends of the Bay contest has officially been called on for the weekend. Below is the tentative schedule for both days. With 4.8ft 15s from 314 is not going to be a classic big day at the Bay, as the NW sets will be pretty inconsistent while the NE swell might introduce mixed energy in between them.
Wind map at noon.
According to the map on the right, the portion of the fetch of the new low in the NW corner oriented towards us is pretty narrow (red circle), while most of the winds are oriented towards a point SW of us (blue circle). We might get a bit of angular spreading out of it and Surfline calls for 5.7ft 15s from 319. There's also the nearby NE fetch associated with the strong trades which will keep the windswell elevated.
South Pacific has a fetch in the Tasman Sea that will be mostly blocked by New Zealand.
Morning sky.
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