Monday 11 18 19 morning call

Trades were back yesterday, Maui didn't look like Bali anymore, but Pipe looked like Pipe again. Photo by liquid barrel.


My pick of Jimmie Hepp's album of the windsurfing action at Hookipa.



3am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No indication of southerly energy at the buoys, check the Lahaina webcam to see if there's anything worth it.

North shore
NW101
4.6ft @ 7s from 47° (NE)

4.3ft @ 11s from 352° (N)

3.8ft @ 8s from 11° (NNE)

3.2ft @ 10s from 356° (N)

Waimea

7.7ft @ 12s from 322° (NW)

Pauwela

6.9ft @ 8s from 43° (NE)

5.9ft @ 11s from 330° (NW)

 

7ft 8s from 43 is a windswell reading that I sure wasn't expecting this morning. Went through the fetch maps and still couldn't find the source fetch. Hilo and Mokapu feel it too, so it's not a buoy glitch, it's really there. With 6ft 11s from 330 on top of that and with the predicted trades, the waves on the north shore shouldn't be as clean as they've been in the first week of November. We're definitely back to average conditions and it's gonna get even worse with the strengthening of the trades towards the end of the week.

Pretty good size waves at Hookipa, the challenge will be to find a place with clean ones.

Wind map at noon.

Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset
7:26a  +2.3                       11:53p  +0.4                       6:39a   5:46p   


North Pacific has a strong NW fetch. 10ft 15s from 314 predicted by Surfline Thursday night.


South Pacific has a fetch in the Tasman Sea.


Morning sky. I saw a bit of counterclockwise rotation that makes me hope in at least a morning with light wind.