Thursday 2 16 23 morning call

Beautiful waves at the harbor yesterday.

Albee Layer and friends were getting barreled just outside of it instead. Those barrels got even better once the Kona wind started blowing around noon.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
No southerly energy at Lanai. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001

• 15ft

  , 13s, ENE 60º
• 7.8ft

  , 10s, ENE 65º
• 7.8ft

  , 7s, ENE 70º

Hanalei

• 12.1ft

  , 11s, NE 45º
• 4.1ft

  , 15s, NNW 340º
• 4ft

  , 13s, N 350º

Waimea

• 5.8ft

  , 15s, NW 325º
• 6ft

  , 11s, NNE 30º
• 2.4ft

  , 13s, N 0º

Mokapu

• 9.7ft

  , 11s, NE 40º

NW swell is showing a healthy 6ft 15s at Waimea and should hold steady locally for most of the day. Together with the still strong NE energy (almost 10ft 11s at Mokapu) that should make for double overhead plus mixed up waves at Hookipa. Notice the massive 15ft 13s from 60 degrees at the NW buoy. That's because that buoy is right in front of the fetch to the east of a local low that will rule our weather for the next several days bringing a lot of rain and strong (although up and down with the squalls) ESE winds.

If you want to dig deeper in what's going on with that, this page offers a good read.
Otherwise, this is the Windguru outlook for the next 10 days. It looks similar to the one I posted on the 4th, with the additional complication of clouds and rain. In other words, if you thought that was bad, this is even worse.

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.