Harbor was smaller yesterday, but still with excellent quality waves thanks to the persisting light offshore winds. Its narrow entrance also filtered only the biggest and more northerly sets to get in there, leaving all the other energies in the outside waters. Hookipa at sunset instead had waves with very clean faces (light offshores), but overlapping all over the place due to the stormy character of this swell that was generated very close and had the simultaneous arrivals of all kinds of periods.
6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at the buoys.
Check the Lahaina webcam if interested,
for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW001
- 3.5ft, 17s, NW 315º
- 6.5ft, 9s, NW 310º
Hanalei
- 8.1ft, 11s, NW 325º
- 3.1ft, 20s, NW 320º
- 2.2ft, 7s, NW 325º
Waimea
- 6.2ft, 20s, NW 310º
- 6.3ft, 13s, NW 325º
While the closely generated NW energy keeps declining, a new much more distantly generated one overlaps. Below are the maps of December 18 through 22 that show the fetches that generated both: blue arrow for the closeby one and black arrow for the distant one (which will eventually become close itself).
Below is the Surfline forecast for the next two days, calling for the long period new swell reaching 3.6ft 18s from 317 at 6pm tonight.
The NW and Hanalei buoys readings seem to be in line with this prediction, while Waimea shows a lot more with a whooping 6.2ft 20s. Let's dig dipper into the Waimea Buoy page readings and we notice only another 6ft 20 reading at 3am (the red arrow shows where to click to get to them). I'm still greatly missing the old graph, but those two high readings look suspicious to say the least.
Home guess for Hookipa is overly difficult under these circumstances, but I can tell that it's still going to be big and a bit unruly (old swell) with the new swell rising throughout the day and possibly getting XL again (IF the 6ft 20s are real). Probably a good idea to look for sheltered places again.
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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