Friday, December 20, 2019

Friday 12 20 19 morning call

Usually I use the last week of the year to ask for donations to show the appreciation for the 2019 season of the MSR blog. This year I'll be off the island in that week, so I'll do it now.

Ultra deserved world title win by Italo Ferreira yesterday at Pipe. Congrats and thanks for pushing the performance level of surfing higher and higher.


Here's some Maui local talent in action at Hookipa yesterday (photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album). Imai deVault did great in the Pipe Invitational and earned a spot in the main event, where he lost to Gabriel Medina in the round of 32, although scoring the highest wave of the heat: a whooping 9.57!


My pick of the windsurfing album.


4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
No southerly energy at the buoys, check the Lahaina webcam to see what's there.

North shore
NW101
11.7ft @ 8s from 56° (ENE)
7.2ft @ 12s from 349° (NNW)

Waimea
4.5ft @ 6s from 38° (NE)            
3.2ft @ 15s from 314° (NW)
2.3ft @ 13s from 313° (NW)

Pauwela
5.4ft @ 15s from 324° (NW)
5.1ft @ 9s from 89° (E)
 
Below is the Pauwela's graph together with the Surfline forecast for the next two days. NW swell holding pretty steady around 5-6ft (although coming down in period) should still provide the highest energy for the day (Hookipa probably head and a half). Notice tomorrow's forecast: the blue line says 13ft 8s from 69. For the downwinders of all sorts, that's the equivalent of the biggest swell of the year at Jaws.


Wind map at noon
       

     
Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset
9:34a  +1.9  11:50p  +1.8   3:31a  +1.0   4:47p  +0.2    6:59a   5:51p    

North Pacific has the small fetches circled in red in the map below. That strong high pressure to our north is going to move east a bit and tomorrow we'll be immersed in that fetch of strong easterlies that I circled in yellow. That will be the source of that massive windswell episode mentioned above.


Couple of fetches down under too.


Morning sky.

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