Thursday 1 26 23 morning call

No photos from yesterday. This is Kane DeWilde in a picture taken by Tomoko. I got one of his tails to try today.

On December 15 I wrote "no trades till Christmas". That was the foreseeable future at the time, but, with the exception of a few sailable days, there have actually been no trades all the way till today. Instead, we had a remarkably long series of large NW swells with ideal light to no wind conditions. Things are changing now, still no trades (at least from the proper ENE direction), but a N to NE flow will turn the conditions into junk on the whole north shore.

7am 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

• 10.4ft

  , 14s, NW 310º
• 4.8ft

  , 11s, NW 320º

Hanalei

• 6.6ft

  , 15s, NW 305º
• 7.6ft

  , 12s, NNW 330º
• 3.1ft

  , 8s, NW 325º

Waimea

• 8.5ft

  , 14s, NW 310º
• 5.6ft

  , 11s, NNW 330º
• 2.9ft

  , 9s, NNW 335º

NW swell holding up still quite elevated in the 11s to 15s period range, home guess for Hookipa is double overhead plus and onshore flow.

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.