Wednesday 4 19 23 morning call

No photos from yesterday, this is a photo by Ben Thouard. A thick and heavy lip at Teahupoo that spells destruction.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

• • 9ft

    , 8s, SSE 165º
  • 5.6ft

    , 5s, SSW 195º
  • 1.5ft

    , 13s, SSW 200º

Lanai

• • 6.2ft

    , 6s, S 190º
  • 1.9ft

    , 13s, SSW 210º
  • 0.8ft

    , 15s, S 190º

Not worth commenting about the small long period energies at the buoy, as the Kona is blowing out everything facing south. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW001

• 6.3ft

  , 9s, W 260º
• 3.4ft

  , 12s, W 260º
• 2.2ft

  , 8s, SE 135º

Hanalei

• 3.2ft

  , 8s, ENE 75º
• 2ft

  , 11s, WNW 295º
• 0.5ft

  , 15s, N 5º
  

Kaneohe Bay

• • 3.6ft

    , 8s, ENE 70º
  • 0.8ft

    , 14s, N 10º
  • 0.8ft

    , 11s, NNE 15º

New small medium period WNW energy is at NW and Hanalei buoys. Below are the maps of April 15 through 17 that show the fetch that generated it (black arrows). Indicated by red arrows is a different fetch that generated the small long period energy from the N/NNE that is at Hanalei and Kaneohe Bay (not at the N one, but that one is battered by the wind and seas of the current front, so it might be just underneath that). Lastly, the blue arrow indicates a more distant one that generated a long period NW swell that will arrive Saturday.

Surfline calls for very little today from the WNW swell (also because of the westerly direction), but offers an optimistic 4ft 11s for tomorrow evening. A couple of feet 14s is instead the prediction for the northerly swell. Home guess for Hookipa is flat between the arrival of the northerly sets in the waist to shoulder high range and potential very clean conditions when the Kona is blowing light between squalls. Eastern exposures that are open to the N and protected by the SW wind could also offer good conditions.

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.