Thursday, February 23, 2023

Thursday 2 23 23 morning call

No photos from yesterday. I shot this video on Tuesday. It's a comparison between two very different foils of similar area. Goes to show how little surface area by itself tells about a foil.


5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

  • 4.6ft
    , 7s, SSE 150º
  • 0.4ft
    , 13s, S 190º
  • 0.2ft
    , 17s, S 190º

Lanai is recording SSE windswell and smidgets of long period southerly energies. Below are the maps of February 16 and 17 that show the small fetch just east of New Zealand that probably generated the latter.


Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

Hanalei

  • 8.6ft
    , 10s, NE 55º
  • 2.2ft
    , 13s, WNW 300º

Mokapu

  • 8.9ft
    , 10s, ENE 60º

Hanalei stubbornly keeps showing small NW energy, but once again also today it's all going to be about the raging ENE windswell. Home guess for Hookipa is head to head and a third peaky mushy windy waves.

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.


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