Monday, May 22, 2023

Monday 5 22 23 morning call

Summer looking Hookipa yesterday.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

    • 1.8ft
      , 11s, S 185º
    • 1.3ft
      , 15s, S 190º
    • 0.7ft
      , 20s, SSW 210º

Lanai

    • 1.3ft
      , 15s, S 185º
    • 2.1ft
      , 8s, SSE 150º
    • 1.3ft
      , 11s, S 185º

Mix of southerly energies at the buoys. Below are the maps of May 13 to 17 that show the fetch that generated them. After that, there have been constant fetches in the Tasman Sea and pumping surf in Fiji and Barbers shows the first arrival of that with a 0.7ft 20s reading. Not much to be expected from it, just yet at least.


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



North shore

NW001

  • 1.9ft
    , 11s, WNW 300º

Hanalei

  • 0.9ft
    , 12s, W 280º
  • 0.4ft
    , 14s, W 275º

Waimea

  • 0.9ft
    , 13s, WNW 295º

Mokapu

    • 5ft
      , 6s, E 100º

The small WNW energy recorded by some of the buoys are not going to do anything on our north shore, which will mostly have the easterly windswell you see at Mokapu. Home guess for Hookipa is flat to waist high, bigger on eastern exposures.

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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