Wednesday 2 2 22 morning call

Hookipa yesterday afternoon. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers is mostly reading NW wrap and can't be used to detect small southerly energy. Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW101

5.7ft @ 13s from 317° (NW)

3.7ft @ 10s from 303° (WNW)

Hanalei

5.6ft @ 13s from 309° (WNW)

3.6ft @ 11s from 314° (NW)

Waimea

6.6ft @ 13s from 313° (NW)

2.8ft @ 11s from 314° (NW)

Thanks to blog reader Ben who left a comment on yesterday's post with a workaround way to access the buoy graphs (thank you very much), below is Waimea's graph that shows the very steep rise of the swell yesterday afternoon. If you were watching the Pipe Masters, I'm sure you noticed. Make it a foot or two smaller and shift it 5 hours later, and you get how the swell rose locally. Which means that it peaked during the night and today should be on the steady decline all day. Sunrise should still have solid size (about 6ft 13s). Home guess for Hookipa is for double overhead at least and no wind for most of the morning.

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.