Thursday 3 16 23 morning call

Splitting the peak of a waist high bomb yesterday morning at Hookipa.

I did a wing downwinder from Kanaha to Kuau.


Later in the day I e-biked back to get my car and Kanaha looked like this: very different than usual and gorgeous.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

• 1.8ft

  , 13s, SSW 195º

Lanai

• 1.3ft

  , 12s, S 185º
• 2.1ft

  , 6s, W 265º
• 0.5ft

  , 11s, SSW 210º

Small southerly energy at the buoys. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001
2.9ft 9s NNW(330º)

Mokapu

• 1ft

  , 13s, N 5º
• 1.4ft

  , 9s, N 5º

Kaneohe Bay

• 1.6ft

  , 9s, NNE 20º

Small short period NW to NNE energies at the buoys. Home guess for Hookipa is flat to waist high and pretty much no wind all day.

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.