Friday 2 24 23 morning call

Hookipa yesterday.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 4.7ft

  , 8s, SSE 150º
• 0.4ft

  , 14s, SW 215º

SSE windswell and a smidget of long period SW energy is at Lanai. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001

• 10.7ft

  , 10s, E 95º
• 5.2ft

  , 7s, ESE 110º
• 1.4ft

  , 13s, NW 310º

Mokapu

• 10.8ft

  , 11s, ENE 60º
• 4.5ft

  , 8s, E 85º
• 3.5ft

  , 6s, E 80º

The buoy pandemic got another victim, as Hanalei also appear to be offline today. NW buoy shows a bit of NW energy and below are the maps of February 20 through 22 showing the fetch that generated it (black arrow). Surfline calls for a peak at 2.3ft 15s tomorrow mid day. The blue arrows instead show the windswell fetch and it's easy to understand why that energy is much higher (although shorter period), as we're literally at the end of it and there's not much energy decay due to travel time.

Home guess for Hookipa is the usual (these days) head to head and a third peaky mushy windy waves. Much bigger on eastern exposures.

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.