4am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
1.3ft @ 15s from 184° (S)
What's convinceing about the southerly reading at Barbers is the period: there's no other 15s in the water. So I went and retrieved the maps of April 3 and 4th and sure enough, there was a fetch. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
4.6ft @ 12s from 344° (NNW)
4.2ft @ 8s from 326° (NW)
4.1ft @ 7s from 298° (WNW)
3.9ft @ 10s from 336° (NNW)
Hanalei
3.6ft @ 13s from 345° (NNW)
2.6ft @ 10s from 340° (NNW)
Waimea
4.8ft @ 13s from 4° (N)
3.1ft @ 10s from 353° (N)
Pauwela
5.8ft @ 13s from 349° (NNW)
3.8ft @ 10s from 344° (NNW)
This swell surprised everyone with its size. The great wind conditions of morning and evening made it epic (together with the 13-14s period, which made for lots of peeling waves and less closeouts). Below are the graphs of NW and Pauwela together with the Surfline forecast, confirmed to be about 12h late. Today this pulse should be dropping rather quickly, even though Hookipa should be still at least head and a half to start with.
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 fetches map (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner):
the nearby low pressure n.2 is doing its job of killing the trades and generating waves for us just as good as the first one (short period swell on Sunday). Today we also have a new distant WNW fetch, which will gift us with a long period swell on Wednesday.
South Pacific fetches map (about 7 days travel time from east of New Zealand):
way deep down the Tasman Sea there appears to be something for us.
Morning sky.
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