Friday 12 31 21 morning call

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Hookipa yesterday morning.

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

Facebook memories brought up this photo from 9 years ago. The Starboard POD 7.4 was the most fun high performance SUP board I've ever ridden, but unfortunately I don't own that board anymore. I will look into the many 2022 models we just received at Hi-Tech to see if there's something similar to it, otherwise it might be time to have a similar one custom shaped.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. There actually are waves, but the southerly flow makes them crumble.

North shore
NW101
3.4ft @ 13s from 307° (WNW)

Hanalei

8.7ft @ 9s from 60° (ENE)

3ft @ 14s from 314° (NW)

Hilo
7.2ft @ 9s from 48° (NE)

Kaneohe Bay
7.5ft @ 9s from 58° (ENE)

The Windguru table below shows the change in the weather that is happening. After almost two weeks of strong high pressure blocking the development of the usual NW swells, the north Pacific is about to assume a more typical wintery configuration. The high pressure will rise up to the Gulf of Alaska and a Kona storm is developing to our immediate west, bringing either calm winds or southerly flows and allowing the NW fetches to get closer to us. The first half of January will see much bigger waves and less wind than what we've seen in the second half of December.

NW and Hanalei show around 3ft 14s of NW energy, while the easterly windswell is still elevated (it will decline very slowly in the next few days, check the light blue dotted line in the Pauwela forecast below). Home guess for Hookipa is head to head and a half and no wind till later in the morning when a bit of Kona wind might find its way there.

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) 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.