Wednesday 1 29 20 morning call

Buttery conditions yesterday morning at Hookipa, I took these shots after my session.

 

 

This is my pick of Jimmie Hepp's album of the windsurfing action. I guess the big sets kept pouring in all day.



6am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers, the Lahaina webcam shows a little leftover energy from the south, but onshore conditions.

North shore
NW001
7.8ft @ 15s from 291° (WNW)

3.9ft @ 12s from 294° (WNW)

3.8ft @ 10s from 301° (WNW)

Waimea
N/A

Pauwela
4.8ft @ 14s from 319° (NW)

3.8ft @ 9s from 74° (ENE)

3.8ft @ 7s from 73° (ENE)

1.6ft @ 12s from 323° (NW)

New NW swell on the rise all day, let's how Pat Cladwell described the evolution of the fetch:
The next low pressure in the series occluded on Saturday 1/25 within the parent Aleutian low filling the NW to central N Pacific. Winds were strongest 1/25 to severe gales, with an exceptionally long, broad fetch of gales covering within 25-45N and the Kuril Islands to the Date Line. The pattern is slowly weakening 1/27-28 with an eastward shift. Near gales have reached to within 1000 nm of Hawaii by 1/27. This pattern is expected to hold about the same into 1/29.

Surf is predicted to rebuild above average Tuesday night and continue to rise Wednesday from 290-320 degrees. Heights should hold at elevated levels on Thursday. The more WNW to NW surf generated within 1/25-29 should be long-lived in Hawaii, holding Friday into Sunday 1/31-2/2 with a slow downward trend. More NNW surf is due to dominate by mid Friday into Saturday 1/31-2/1.

Below is the collage of the maps of Jan 25, 26, 27 and 28.


Below are the graphs of NW001 and Pauwela together with the Surfline forecast. I circled in red the rise at the NW buoy, a similar rise should happen during the day locally. We start with 5ft, it might be up to 8ft by sunset. Hookipa should be overhead already in the morning, I will report later. Clean conditions with no wind until around noon.

The Volcom Pipe Pro starts at 8am, I don't see a link for the live stream on the WSL page, but it seems there should be one here. It should a cracker of a day, judging by this screen shot.

 

  Wind map at noon
       
     

Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset
5:10a  +2.1   5:07p  +1.3  11:49a  +0.6  10:44p  +0.5    7:05a   6:16p

North Pacific has the fetches highlighted on the map.

Nothing from the south.

Morning sky.