Thursday 5 9 19 morning call

A shortboard and three longboard sessions for me yesterday. These are the pristine conditions that blessed every single spot on the island yesterday morning thanks to the lack of wind.


This instead is Hookipa glassing off at sunset after the mid day onshores.


4am significant buoy readings
South shore
Barbers
2.5ft @ 13s from 218° (SW)

1.4ft @ 9s from 190° (S)

0.5ft @ 20s from 187° (S)

 

Lanai

2.4ft @ 13s from 189° (S)

1.5ft @ 9s from 177° (S)

0.8ft @ 20s from 192° (SSW)

 

Great numbers at the buoys. Let's start from the persistent 13s energy. This swell has been a bit of a surprise for me, as I didn't pay enough attention to the fetches. Below is the collage of the maps of April 28, 29 and 30. I added red arrows to point out the fetches that, imo, contributed to this very consistent southerly swell. 2.4ft 13s means that most of the energy in the water will be from that. From the observation of the webcam, it seems a lot less consistent than the past 3 days though.

 

But, there's also 20s energy at both the local buoys and those are the forerunners of the first pulse of the weekend double wham. Below is the map of May 2nd. Big and strong fetch oriented towards central America out of which we're receiving some angular spreading. This energy should be a lot less consistent than the 13s one.

This is a nice set on the webcam. Overall, it should be another great day of surfing on that side, but do check the webcam before going.

 

North shore
NW101

4.2ft @ 11s from 351° (N)

 

Hanalei

2.6ft @ 11s from 315° (NW)

 

Waimea

2ft @ 11s from 312° (NW)

 

Pauwela

3.5ft @ 9s from 60° (ENE)

2.1ft @ 12s from 332° (NNW)

 

9s energy down to 3.5ft and now coming from 60 degrees should still provide Hookipa and the east facing shores with some fun size waves (probably waist to chest). But there's also new 12s energy from the NW. Below is the collage of the maps of May 6, 7 and 8, showing the unimpressive (hence the small numbers) fetch. Mama's cam is down, I will try to report from Hookipa before 7.30am, not expecting anything particularly exciting. 

 

Wind map at noon. Should be calm on the north shore till 10ish.

 

North Pacific has a very small NW fetch.

 

South Pacific has an extremely weak S fetch that probably won't do much at all. This means that the last good fetch for the upcoming big swell was yesterday.

 

Morning sky.