Wednesday 3 23 22 morning call

The Kahului area filled with waves yesterday. Photo by Foilphotos.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW101
6.8ft @ 12s from 357° (N)

Hanalei

8.1ft @ 8s from 20° (NNE)

6.7ft @ 12s from 337° (NNW)

Waimea

7ft @ 13s from 327° (NW)

6ft @ 9s from 351° (N)

Pauwela

7ft @ 13s from 334° (NNW)

6ft @ 9s from 26° (NNE)

4.6ft @ 6s from 64° (ENE)

NW to NNW swell was much bigger than the buoy readings yesterday. Double mast high (25 feet faces) were observed at Hookipa while Pauwela was reading 6ft 14s of NW energy. Below is its graph that gives us a clue to a possible explanation. In the afternoon, the black line (significant wave height, sum of all the energies in the water) went up because of the shorter period NNE energy that overlapped to the existing long period NW one.

Buoy readings are still pretty high this morning, so conditions should be similar to yesterday: tons of energy and big waves. Home guess for Hookipa is for double overhead and too much energy to be good, I'd seek a sheltered spot instead.

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.