Thursday 4 27 23 morning call

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

• • 1.9ft

    , 12s, S 180º
  • 2.6ft

    , 7s, NW 315º
  • 0.9ft

    , 17s, S 180º

Lanai

• • 1.2ft

    , 17s, S 175º
  • 1.5ft

    , 10s, WNW 295º
  • 1ft

    , 11s, SSW 210º
  
  Roughly one foot 17s of southerly energy from the fetch we discussed yesterday is at the buoys. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.
  

North shore

NW001

• 3.6ft

  , 14s, WNW 300º
• 2.5ft

  , 10s, NW 320º
• 1.8ft

  , 8s, N 0º

Hanalei

• 2.5ft

  , 11s, NW 320º
• 2.8ft

  , 9s, NNW 340º
• 1.3ft

  , 14s, NW 310º

Waimea (back online!)

• 3.7ft

  , 10s, N 350º
• 1.1ft

  , 15s, NW 310º
• 0.4ft

  , 7s, N 350º

A mix of closely and remotely generated NW energies of different periods is at the buoys. Below are the maps of April 22 through 25 that show the fetches that generated them. Nothing particularly intense, but they should provide moderate size waves for the next few days.

Home guess for Hookipa is head high or more and clean with no wind or light offshores for most of 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.