These instead are the photos I took at Hookipa yesterday morning after my session.
4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
Barbers
3.1ft @ 9s from 230° (SW)
Not sure what to make of that reading at Barbers, as usual the way to find out what's in the water on that side is to look at the Lahaina webcam (there were some waves yesterday and looks like there are also today).
North shore
NW001
11.6ft @ 12s from 337° (NNW)
Waimea
5.7ft @ 13s from 317° (NW)
1.5ft @ 12s from 318° (NW)
Pauwela
Pauwela
5.7ft @ 10s from 72° (ENE)
Wind map at noon
4.8ft @ 14s from 316° (NW)
2.3ft @ 6s from 89° (E)
Waimea is back, below are the graphs of NW and Pauwela together with the Surfline forecast. On the first one, I highlighted a first slow rise in size in yellow and a second sharper rise (with shorter period) in fuchsia. Notice also how the direction went more north during the second pulse. Locally the first rise should happen throughout the day, while the second one should start right around sunset. For once, the Surfline timing seems correct.
Waves at Hookipa should be overhead with clean conditions, I'll report from the beach later.
Wind map at noon
Kahului Tides
High Tide High Tide Low Tide Low Tide Sunrise Sunset
5:48a +1.7 7:40p +1.2 1:00p +0.5 11:51p +1.1 7:05a 6:18p
North Pacific has the fetches circled in red. Notice how the close-by fetch that yesterday was NW of us literally raced across the great circle rays and is now in a NNE position.
Proper low (949mbar) in the South Pacific, the portion of the ocean with winds oriented towards us (that's the definition of a fetch) is rather small, but it should make for a small south swell in a week (1.6ft 16s from 197 predicted by Surfline on Friday)
Morning sky.
No comments:
Post a Comment