Saturday 5 29 21 morning call

Hookipa yesterday morning. Photo by Patrick Wardle.

Hookipa yesterday afternoon. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album. Btw, in case you wonder why the afternoon shots always show bigger waves, here's the two reasons:
1) the wind is stronger and the local windswell is bigger and adds up to the energy of eventual ground swells.
2) Jimmie shoots for hours and posts large albums, out which I tend to pick the photos that show the biggest waves.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
2.4ft @ 14s from 177° (S)
0.2ft @ 25s from 209° (SSW)

Lanai

2.3ft @ 14s from 175° (S)

Below are the maps of May 22 through 25. The 22nd map shows a fetch just NE of New Zealand, probably responsible for the 14s energy at the buoys. Not a particularly powerful one, so to me the readings appear to be more than I would expect. More small scattered sources in the following days, so more small waves in the next few days.

Check the Lahaina or Kihei webcams if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. This set was pretty solid, but there's not many.

North shore
NW101
1.8ft @ 10s from 320° (NW)

Waimea

1.8ft @ 9s from 340° (NNW)

1.1ft @ 11s from 330° (NW)

Pauwela
3.3ft @ 8s from 72° (ENE)

NW energy disappeared at Pauwela and Hanalei and it's down to minimal values at NW and Waimea, so today it's going to be temporarily back to the easterly windswell only. Home guess for Hookipa is flat to belly high. Conditions should be glassy until the usual 9-10am.

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.