Monday 2 14 22 morning call

Hookipa yesterday morning.

I chose to practice my glide and pump technique on small waves with the SUP foil instead. After that, I hit the water at 11 o'clock in light wind and taking off was not an issue with my 6m F1 Strike. Sooner or later I'm going to make a video to show why I think they're the best pumping wings in the market.

3am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
0.8ft @ 18s from 188° (S)

Wonderful small long period energy at Barbers. Remember (from yesterday's discussion) that this is going to be mostly angular spreading energy, so particularly inconsistent. Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
N
6.8ft @ 9s from 11° (NNE)

Hanalei
3.8ft @ 8s from 43° (NE)

Mokapu
4.1ft @ 8s from 57° (ENE)

In a day with no significant NW energy in the water, the north shore is still not going to be flat (at least in the afternoon) as there will be short period energy from the NNE. Below are the maps of Feb 11 through 14 on which I indicated with a red arrow the close by small fetch that generated it on the 12 and 13.

Below are the graph of the N buoy (that jumped up during the night) and the Surfline forecast calling for around 5ft 10s in the afternoon. Home guess for Hookipa in the early morning is for flat to small though.

You probably noticed the black arrows I added in the fetch maps and the Surfline forecast above.
They indicate the strong fetch that generated a swell that will arrive tomorrow and that Surfline predicts to be as big as 5.5ft 18s tomorrow afternoon. Below is today's weather map that show the impressive 949mbar low pressure. Although its track wasn't ideal, this is going to be a pretty large swell.

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.