Thursday 12 15 22 morning call

Hookipa yesterday. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 2ft

  , 13s, SSW 195º
• 1ft

  , 15s, S 185º

Barbers

• 1.1ft

  , 15s, S 190º
• 0.8ft

  , 13s, SSW 195º

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

North shore
NW001

• 4.9ft

  , 8s, ENE 65º
• 1.8ft

  , 14s, NNW 340º

Hanalei

• 3.2ft

  , 13s, NNE 20º
• 3.8ft

  , 9s, NE 50º

Waimea

• 2.8ft

  , 13s, N 10º
• 3.9ft

  , 8s, NNE 20º
• 1.1ft

  , 11s, NNE 20º

Mokapu

• 3.5ft

  , 14s, NNE 25º
• 4.3ft

  , 8s, NE 40º

Hilo

• 4.4ft

  , 13s, NNE 20º
• 4.8ft

  , 9s, NE 50º
• 2.8ft

  , 7s, ENE 65º

Today is a transition day into a phase of weather change. There's three XL NW swells in the forecast and no trades till Christmas. The first one is not predicted to rise locally until tomorrow, so today we're dealing with the fun size NNE to NE energies you see at the buoys. Below are the maps of December 13 and 14 that show the fetch that generated the 13s NNE one.

Home guess for Hookipa is for head to head and a half high and clean with no wind pretty much all day (of course, at one point an onshore sea breeze will develop).

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.