3am significant buoy readings
South shore
Barbers
1.6ft @ 13s from 195° (SSW)
Lanai
2.1ft @ 13s from 198° (SSW)
Not too bad for a week... "without swells". Loving the lack of crowds, the extremely clean early morning conditions and even the traffic on the way back for the installation of the lanes' sound markers on the Pali, which will save many lives in the future. Watch out for the extreme new moon tides, here's the Lahaina ones.
The low tide might be the reason why this morning the waves only look like knee high on the webcam. Still clean and not flat, I'll take it. Check it out yourself, it might get a little bigger on the rebound.
Below is the collage of the maps of July 22 to 25. On the 23rd I circled that fetch NE of New Zealand in black because it was oriented towards our west, but it looks like we got some angular spread energy out of it.
North shore
Mokapu
5.3ft @ 8s from 74° (ENE)
Hilo
7.2ft @ 8s from 74° (ENE)
Windswell increased a bit, more small mushy waves at Hookipa, slightly bigger on the eastern exposures.
Wind map at noon.
North Pacific has the trade windswell fetch and the two tiny but intense ones of Erick and Flossie. Depending on the trajectory, most of the energy of those last two will be blocked by Big Island, but if they will travel south of us (as they're predicted at the moment), we could have those short windows of epicness in select spots on the south shore.
Here's Erick's cone, too early for specific swell prediction. For sure the combo of the two storms will finally put an end to the drought we had so far in this extremely dry summer (caused by the easterly direction of the trades, as opposed to a ENE or NE direction).
South Pacific has a couple of lovely fetches E and W of New Zealand. And the big Tasman Sea wham is following right behind. Should be a pretty good first half of August. What a summer!
Morning sky shows the approaching outer bands of Hurricane Erick in the SE corner.
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