Hookipa yesterday morning.
5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Lanai
- 1.1ft, 12s, SSW 195º
Barbers
- 2.8ft, 12s, S 185º
Pearl Harbor Entrance
- 1.1ft, 15s, SSE 160º
For a change, I reported the Pearl Harbor Entrance buoy (which is usually not so reliable, as it's in too shallow waters), because it's the only one that shows fresh 15s energy, while the other two only show the old 12s energy.
Below are the maps of October 23 through 28 that show the series of fetches that should keep the surf on the south shore up for the whole week with Surfline is calling for a couple of feet daily with periods between 17 and 13s.
Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
- 2ft, 13s, N 5º
Hanalei
- 4.4ft, 6s, NE 50º
- 1.5ft, 14s, NNW 345º
Waimea
- 3.6ft, 6s, NE 40º
- 1.3ft, 13s, N 350º
Pauwela
- 4.1ft, 6s, NE 55º
- 2.5ft, 8s, E 80º
- 1.1ft, 14s, NNW 340º
New small medium period NNW energy is at the buoys together with some short period NE windswell (which went down from 8s to 6s). Below are the maps of October 27 through 30 that show the fetch that generated it.
Once again, you can see how fast the fetch moved across the great circle rays and that greatly limited the potential for wave generation. Surfline calls for 2ft 14s, but it seems it will be a bit less than that. Home guess for Hookipa is around chest to shoulder high of windswell peaks with the occasional much more outlined NW set.
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.
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