Thursday 11 14 19 morning call

No Maui photos from yesterday, here's Cloudbreak instead by Brothers Surf Tours. Too small to get excited here, if we're lucky we'll get some knee high stuff from that swell in 3-4 days. Not many will care, as the waves will be big on the north shore at the same time.


4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
Barbers            

0.6ft @ 18s from 197° (SSW)

Lanai

1.4ft @ 11s from 186° (S)                        

0.5ft @ 18s from 225° (SW)

 

Tiny leftover 11s S energy at Lanai, but what's nice is the half a foot 18s SW energy that cause some very inconsistent fun size sets in between long flat spells. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested.


North shore
NW101

7.6ft @ 13s from 321° (NW)

Waimea

1.9ft @ 9s from 345° (NNW)

1.7ft @ 11s from 320° (NW)

1.6ft @ 15s from 342° (NNW)

Pauwela

2.9ft @ 9s from 42° (NE)

1.8ft @ 11s from 326° (NW)

1.1ft @ 5s from 52° (ENE)

0.9ft @ 16s from 347° (NNW)

 

New NW/NNW swell on the rise at the buoys. Below is the graph of the three reported ones. Based on GP's rule of thumb for the traveling time (16h @16s +/-1h -/+1s), I drew the predicted rise locally at Pauwela: pretty steady throughout all day. Size should be pretty small at dawn, but it could be well overhead by sunset. I will try to report from Hookipa before 7am.

Wind map at noon.


Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset
3:48a  +2.6   2:25p  +1.5  10:06a  +1.0   9:00p  -0.3    6:37a   5:47p    

North Pacific has the following three fetches:
- a brand new one just off Japan
- the WNW one (Sunday swell) getting closer to us (captured)
- the NNW one (tonight, Friday and Saturday swell)  now mostly aiming at the mainland.


Not much from the south.


Morning sky.