Tuesday 8 4 20 morning call

The new family activity/spot was captured in this video by Gofoil shot over the weekend.


4am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers

1.5ft @ 11s from 185° (S)       

0.6ft @ 18s from 202° (SSW)

Lanai

1.6ft @ 12s from 199° (SSW)          

0.7ft @ 14s from 186° (S)

 

New 18s energy at Barbers should be on a very slowly rise throughout the day and peak tomorrow at (hopefully) a couple of feet 14-16s. Here's Pat Caldwell description of the evolution of the fetch.
 

An east-moving gale low S of New Zealand 7/27 began an equatorward track near 160W 7/28. The ocean surface winds weakened to mostly near gales as the fetch stretched toward the subtropics. ASCAT 7/29 AM showed the head of the fetch to 35S. The fetch towards Hawaii mostly ended 7/30 as the seas were aimed toward the NW well SW of Hawaii.
The initial stage could bring low, inconsistent, long-period surf locally 8/4 from 190-200 degrees. Better odds for the moderate wave period stage with surf building from 170-190 degrees to near average 8/5. It should peak Wednesday night and slowly fade to background by 8/7.

           

Below are the maps of July 28 through 31 that will help follow. Not a particularly exciting fetch, but it looked alright on the 29th (so better waves tomorrow and hopefully Thursday).


Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. Pretty small and a bit onshore at the moment.


Here's a better set at Breakwall.


North shore
Pauwela

2.8ft @ 7s from 57° (ENE)        

2.5ft @ 9s from 42° (NE)

NE swell down to very small size, hence small waves at Hookipa and on eastern exposures.

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


Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: apparent direct aim, but out of the great circle ray map, so not 100% sure).
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):


South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):


Morning sky.