Hookipa yesterday, photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.
South shore
Lanai
1.2ft @ 13s from 195° (SSW)
Smidget of leftover SSW energy at Lanai. The Lahaina webcam is still down, probably not flat but barely. Hard to tell from Ala Moana, as it still seems mostly a windswell wrap over there.
North shore
NW001
6.4ft @ 16s from 311° (NW)
Pauwela
6.7ft @ 9s from 83° (E)
3.8ft @ 14s from 10° (N)
New long period NW energy will be slowly rising locally all day (10 degrees direction at Pauwela is incorrect, because it's influenced by the still strong easterly windswell). Below are the maps of Jan 23 though 27 that show scattered fetches just offshore the Asian continent. The one in the Kamchatka corner on the 26th was the strongest and it generated today's swell.
Below are NW001 and Pauwela's graph and the Surfline forecast (late, as usual). Notice how there has been low NW energy at the outer buoy since a couple of days (fetches of the first days of the above map collage), but that was hard to notice locally, because of the elevated easterly windswell. Today's swell is bigger instead and it should be well noticeable, specially later in the day.
Home guess for Hookipa is for mixed up waves probably in the head to head and a half range. Early morning rain calmed the wind a bit, there might have been semi-clean conditions, but it's supposed to blow also today. The wind maps server has undergone a "catastrophic disk malfunction", but hopefully will be back online soon. Wind map at noon .The other ones can be found at link n.-2 of GP's meteo websites list in the right column (click on animation of the 10 meter column).
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Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked).
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.
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