Monday 5 17 21 morning call

No photos from yesterday, this is a great shot of Robby Naish (probably on a Kona day at Lanes) from Fish Bowl Diaries that made the cover of a german magazine. Imo, all those writings ruin the enjoyment of the vision of the photo, which remains remarkable nonetheless.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers

1.8ft @ 13s from 185° (S)

1ft @ 18s from 175° (S)

Lanai

1ft @ 12s from 185° (S)

No idea of where that 1ft 18s at Barbers comes from, I'm gonna guess it's some kind of glitch. Below are the maps of May 10 to 15 in fact, that show that not much is to be expected on the south shore this week.


The wave below is clearly the leftover southerly energy that is clocking in at 1ft 12s at Lanai (check the distance with the wave in front, that's 12s not 18s). Anyway, check the Lahaina or Kihei webcams if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW101
4.2ft @ 12s from 344° (NNW)

Hanalei
1.5ft @ 13s from 331° (NNW)

Waimea
1ft @ 13s from 326° (NW)

Pauwela

4.6ft @ 8s from 40° (NE)

3.3ft @ 4s from 60° (ENE)

0.8ft @ 14s from 357° (N)

New small NW swell has picked up at the NW buoys and will be slowly rising all day locally. Nothing to be particularly excited about, but better than the nothingness we had for the last three-four days. Below are the graphs of NW101 and Pauwela together with the Surfline forecast. Early morning at Hookipa will mostly see windswell energy, but later in the day small more organizes sets should start to arrive. The windswell is from 40 degrees, so it will arrive unblocked and provide weak, disorganized peaky waves in the waist to chest high range (possibly occasionally bigger) with some wind on it.



For the fetch analysis lovers, below are the maps of May 12 through 14 that show the evolution of the fetch. There's going to be another small NW swell right after it, we'll look at the fetch when it arrives later mid week.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked) from Windy.
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.