Sunday 12 24 23 morning call

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Hookipa yesterday.

7am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore

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No southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW101

• • • 6.4ft

      , 16s, NW 325º
    • 2.6ft

      , 11s, NW 325º

Waimea

• • • 4.1ft

      , 18s, NNW 340º
    • 3.2ft

      , 12s, NW 325º

Pauwela

• • • 3.3ft

      , 18s, NW 325º
    • 2.9ft

      , 13s, NW 325º
    • 2.4ft

      , 9s, ENE 65º

New long period NW swell picked up at the buoys and will continue rising all day. Below are the maps of December 21 through 23 that show the fetch that generated it. Pat Caldwell wrote that the low went down to 969mb mid 21st and that's a case in which by sampling the wind map at midnight of everyday, I missed the most intense moment of it. Home guess for Hookipa is around head and a half in the morning building to double overhead plus during the day. Surfline calls for 6ft 16s at sunset.

 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