Thursday 2 27 20 morning call

No photos from yesterday, here's a reminder of the windsurfing movie coming up this Saturday at the MACC.



4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
No southerly readings at Barbers, check the Lahaina webcam (there's nothing).

North shore
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4.2ft @ 11s from 341° (NNW)                        

3.3ft @ 18s from 332° (NNW)

Hanalei

3ft @ 12s from 328° (NW)

2.1ft @ 11s from 334° (NNW)

Waimea

2.6ft @ 11s from 335° (NNW)

Pauwela

6.6ft @ 9s from 62° (ENE)

4.5ft @ 7s from 52° (ENE)

4ft @ 12s from 330° (NW)

 

The NW swell went down quite a bit yesterday afternoon (so much so that, contrary to what I wrote, the change was noticeable) and today should continue to decrease. With a 4am reading of 4ft 12s, it doesn't look like the most exciting day for surfing anywhere. I mean, a 4ft 12s swell would be extremely fun IF there was no wind and there were no other swells. But we got both, so the conditions on the north shore will be the usual choppy mess.

As predicted, Honolua yesterday morning was inconsistent (due to the westerly direction), but beautiful, head and a half to double with occasional bigger sets and packed. Today it will be much smaller, possibly even too small at times. Tough call for a good surfing spot, I'd rater seek a sheltered spot on the north shore. Good luck.

 

Below is the graph of the NW buoy on which I circled the rise of the next NW swell. 18s take 14h to get here, so those 3.3ft (minus the decay for extra travel) should arrive locally around 6pm, which means that the forerunners could be observed already in the early to mid afternoon.

 

Even though I am thoroughly enjoying it thanks to the variety of disciplines I do, this has sure been a very windy winter. Much windier than average. At least so far we had a lot of easterly days, which makes surfing ok in the early morning, but this week is a particularly bad one (from the surfing point of view), since the wind direction is around 75 degrees, which I often cite as ideal for the practice of wind related sports, as it ends up being amplified by the Haleakala and perfectly side shore. If it's good for windsurfing, it ain't good for surfing. Hang in there, next week looks better both from the intensity and direction points of view. Still windy though.


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 tiny WNW fetch and the windswell one.


South Pacific has a nice fetch deep down in the Tasman Sea.


Morning sky.