Friday 2 28 20 morning call

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


4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina webcam. If there is something, it should be from the SSE fetch circled in the map collage below (Feb 21, 22 and 23). Unfortunately, it looks flat and windy.


North shore
NW101
9.6ft @ 15s from 315° (NW)

Hanalei
6.2ft @ 15s from 314° (NW)

Waimea
4.9ft @ 16s from 312° (NW)

2.8ft @ 11s from 319° (NW)

Pauwela
8.5ft @ 9s from 70° (ENE)            

3.9ft @ 16s from 317° (NW)

2.7ft @ 4s from 66° (ENE)

The new NW swell will be on the rise all day, while the ENE windswell keeps pumping. Below is the collage of NW001 and Pauwela graphs together with the Surfline forecast, which, as usual these days, seems to be a bit late (the 6am value is only 2.2ft 16s, while Pauwela already reads 4ft 16s at 4am). Seen the 9.6ft 15s reading at the NW buoy, It might even go a bit higher than the predicted Surfline peak of 6ft 15s. North shore will be windy again, another cracking day for the windsurfers (yesterday there were two guys still out at Hookipa at 6.40pm!).

Pat Caldwell still not posting, below is the collage of the fetch maps of Feb 24, 25 and 26 that shows the fairly westerly position of the fetch. Not the best for Honolua, which might have something nonetheless, and if it does, it will be inconsistent due to the direction that is around 315 (shadow line at 335).


Wind map at noon (the other ones can be found at link n.-2 of GP's meteo websites list in the right column).


North Pacific has a small WNW fetch and the windswell one.


Nothing from the south.


Morning sky.