Thursday 4 23 20 morning call

The NW swell came up nicely and as expected on the north shore yesterday. This is Hookipa around 9am, already much bigger than at dawn and it kept building all day.


4am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly readings at the buoys, check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. Looks like there's waves, but the onshores are already on.

North shore
NW101

8.4ft @ 16s from 335° (NNW)

7ft @ 14s from 340° (NNW)

3.7ft @ 10s from 343° (NNW)

Hanalei
9.2ft @ 13s from 328° (NW)

Waimea
8.1ft @ 13s from 320° (NW)

Pauwela

5.8ft @ 14s from 322° (NW)

4ft @ 8s from 78° (ENE)

 

Plenty energy to play with also today. Below is the graph of the NW buoy, where I circled a second pulse of this swell that happened last night. 18 hours later should happen here too. Notice the change in the direction, which went from NW to NNW. Most Maui spots will like that. Well overhead waves at Hookipa to start with, pushing double plus later in the day, based on the Waimea reading.

 

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):


South Pacific fetches map (about 7 days travel time from east of New Zealand):


Morning sky.