Tuesday 2 3 26 morning call

Hookipa yesterday.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore

Lanai

• • • 3.8ft

      , 9s, W 275º
    • 1.6ft

      , 14s, WNW 290º
    • 3.7ft

      , 6s, WSW 255º

No southerly energy at the buoys, but plenty westerly wrap at Lanai with stormy waves on the cam. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW001

• • • • • • 15.5ft

            , 14s, NW 310º
          • 9.8ft

            , 10s, WNW 300º
          • 6.2ft

            , 8s, WNW 285º

NW101

• 22.1ft

  , 14s, WNW 300º
• 7.7ft

  , 8s, WNW 300º

Hanalei

• • 13.9ft

    , 13s, NW 310º
  • 8.6ft

    , 10s, NW 305º

Waimea

• • • • • • 14.4ft

            , 13s, NW 320º
          • 4.3ft

            , 6s, NW 305º

Pauwela

• • • • • • 4.1ft

            , 15s, NW 325º
          • 4.2ft

            , 12s, NNW 330º
          • 4ft

            , 9s, NW 315º

The outer buoys show the kind of NW energy we're about to be slammed by. This XL swell was (and still is) generated by the fetch indicated by the black arrow in the maps of Jan 30 through Feb 3 below. As you can see the fetch got extremely close to the islands, and that will give not only the size but also a stormy character to the waves, with the aggravating factor of an onshore flow after the front that passed over Maui last night. Home guess for Hookipa is around head and a half to double overhead and stormy in the morning increasing to triple to quadruple overhead by the end of the day. Victory at sea and dangerous conditions.

 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