Thursday 3 14 24 morning call

Hookipa yesterday.

6am 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

• • • 10ft

      , 16s, NNW 340º
    • 7.7ft

      , 11s, NNW 335º
    • 4.1ft

      , 14s, NNW 330º

Waimea

• • • 4.1ft

      , 18s, NW 320º
    • 1.9ft

      , 13s, NW 320º

Pauwela

• • • 2.2ft

      , 20s, NW 320º
    • 4ft

      , 9s, E 100º
    • 1.8ft

      , 14s, NW 325º

New long period XL NW is at the NW buoy and will rise all day locally. Below are the maps of March 11 to 14 that show the fetch that generated it. Home guess for Hookipa is around chest to head high in the early morning building to double overhead plus by sunset (9ft 16s predicted by Surfline). Notice how close the fetch is today and that will cause the simultaneous arrival of all kinds of periods (not only the long ones). On top of that, the onshore flow brought by the tail of the front brushing the islands (see satellite picture below) will make the conditions less than ideal.

 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