11 29 23 morning call

Hookipa yesterday morning.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW001

• • 3.2ft

    , 15s, NW 320º

Hanalei

• • 4ft

    , 9s, NE 40º
  • 2.3ft

    , 15s, NW 310º

Waimea

• • 3.4ft

    , 9s, NNE 20º
  • 0.9ft

    , 17s, NW 305º

Pauwela

• • 4.6ft

    , 9s, NNE 30º
  • 3.1ft

    , 5s, E 90º
  • 0.5ft

    , 17s, N 0º

New moderate long period NW swell is rising at the upstream buoys and will do so also locally throughout the day (Surfline calling for 2.6ft 16s by the end of the day). Below are the maps of November 25 through 28 that show the fetch that generated it (black stick). It also shows the much closer and smaller low that generated the 4.6ft 9s from 30 degrees that will be the dominant energy in the water in the morning (red stick). Home guess for Hookipa is chest high in the morning, possibly bigger in the afternoon. The daily fetch map down below shows a local low that formed just north of the islands  killing the trades and bringing some rain.

 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