Thursday 11 23 23 morning call

Kaa yesterday.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore
Barbers

• • • • • 1.6ft

          , 11s, SSW 200º

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

North shore

NW001

• • 8.1ft

    , 16s, NW 310º

Hanalei

• • 5ft

    , 15s, N 350º
  • 3.9ft

    , 12s, N 10º
  • 3.6ft

    , 6s, ENE 75º

Waimea

• • 5.5ft

    , 14s, NNE 20º
  • 2.6ft

    , 18s, NNW 330º
  • 3.4ft

    , 11s, NNE 20º

Pauwela

• • 8.1ft

    , 14s, N 5º
  • 2.5ft

    , 6s, NE 50º
  • 1.7ft

    , 4s, E 85º

Lots of energy at the buoys. Below are the maps of November 19 and 20 that will help identify the sources. The 8ft 14s from 5 degrees at Pauwela come from the Gulf of Alaska fetch indicated by the blue stick. The 8ft 16s from 310 (and the 2.6ft 18s at Waimea) come from fetch in the Kamchatka corner indicated by the black stick and will be rising all day locally. Tomorrow there will be a much bigger swell coming from the fetch that started off Japan indicated by the red stick (which I will discuss tomorrow).
Home guess for Hookipa is a bit more challenging than usual. For sure it's going to be big, probably around double overhead and not much wind in the morning, possibly getting even bigger in the afternoon and extra large tomorrow.

 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