Sunday 11 20 22 morning call

Hookipa yesterday. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.

My first impressions of an Armstrong HS625.

7am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 1.5ft

  , 13s, S 180º

Barbers

• 1ft

  , 14s, SSW 195º

Small southerly energy at the buoys. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001

• 3.9ft

  , 15s, NW 315º
• 3.7ft

  , 10s, NNW 345º

Hanalei

• 3.4ft

  , 10s, NNW 340º

Waimea

• 3ft

  , 12s, NW 325º
• 3.1ft

  , 6s, NE 40º
• 0.9ft

  , 17s, NW 325º

Mokapu

• 4.7ft

  , 6s, ENE 75º
• 2.6ft

  , 9s, E 80º

A couple of new NW swells are at the buoys. Below are the maps of November 16 thorugh 20. The red arrow shows the small fetch that generated the 10-12s energy. The black arrows show the stronger fetch that generated the 15-15s one. As you can see, the second one kept pushing water our way for the whole period and that will give some continuity to this swell for the next days until Wednesday. After that, a closely generated medium period very large northerly swell will create victory at sea conditions with strong NE winds for at least a couple of days.

Below is the Surfline forecast that shows the longer period swell in black peaking tomorrow at around 5ft 15s and the shorter period swell in blue. Home guess for Hookipa this morning is around head high and rising throughout the day.

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.