Saturday 2 18 23 morning call

Hookipa yesterday around 4pm. It looked a lot better around 2pm with light offshore wind.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 1.5ft

  , 14s, S 185º

Some southerly energy at Lanai. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency (down at the moment).

North shore
NW001

• 10.1ft

  , 11s, ENE 70º
• 5ft

  , 7s, ENE 70º
• 1.4ft

  , 16s, NNW 335º

Hanalei

• 8.4ft

  , 11s, ENE 60º
  

0.4ft 18s WNW(300º)
Mokapu

• 10.1ft

  , 11s, ENE 60º

Here's the list of the buoys that are down at the moment: Barbers, Pauwela, Hilo, Kaneohe Bay and Waimea. I think we can call it a pandemic. Waimea was down already yesterday, so that 6.6ft 15s of yesterday wasn't true.

What is left shows the elevated ENE windswell and a new low long period NW swell starting to show at NW and Hanalei.
Below are the maps of February 14 through 18 that show the fetch that generated it (black arrow) together with the much closer NE fetch (blue arrow) that generated the much higher but shorter period NE energy.

This is the Surfline forecast for the next couple of days showing the new NW swell slowly reaching 1.7ft 17s at sunset locally. Nothing to be particularly excited about, as most of the waves in the water will belong the NE swell. Hopes for a decent final day at the Sunset Beach contest tomorrow, but nothing like the excellent conditions of day 3 though.

Based on the Mokapu reading, home guess for Hookipa is for head and a half mushy, peaky waves and no wind in the morning.

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.