Wednesday 12 28 22 morning call

Thank you Greg and Valerio for the donations.

The last week of the year is when I remind the readers that they can show their appreciation for the work done during 2022 with the Paypal button on the right or via my venmo account @Giampaolo-Cammarota. Thank you.

Hookipa yesterday morning.

Hookipa in the afternoon. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.

Hookipa at sunset.



5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 1.9ft

  , 8s, S 180º

Barbers

• 3.2ft

  , 8s, SSE 165º

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

North shore
NW001

• 5.2ft

  , 12s, NW 315º
• 2.5ft

  , 16s, NW 305º

Hanalei

• 5.1ft

  , 11s, NW 325º
• 2.5ft

  , 17s, NW 310º

Waimea

• 3.8ft

  , 11s, NW 310º
• 1.6ft

  , 15s, NNW 335º

Mokapu

• 3.4ft

  , 6s, E 80º

Below are the maps of December 23 and 24, which I already posted on the 26th. This time I added a yellow arrow to indicate the new long period low energy that is at the buoys today, which won't do too much today, but it will become the dominant energy for a few days starting tomorrow.

Today we'll deal mostly with the remaining 11-12s energy coming from the fetch indicated by the black arrow instead. Home guess for Hookipa is for head to head and a half and once again clean in the windless early morning hours.

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.