Monday 3 9 26 morning call

Hookipa yesterday at sunset.

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

• • • 0.9ft

      , 15s, SSW 210º

Lanai

• • • 1ft

      , 14s, SSW 195º

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

North shore

NW001

• • • • • • 0.9ft

            , 17s, NW 310º

Hanalei

• • 0.3ft

    , 18s, NW 305º

Pauwela

• • • • • • 7.1ft

            , 10s, ENE 65º
          • 3.6ft

            , 5s, ENE 65º

That less than a foot of long period NW energy at the outer buoys should come from the fetch indicated in the maps of March 5 through 8 below. The lack of significant NW fetches on those maps should explains the lack of swells of the past few days. Surfline only calls for 0.9 ft 18s at sunset for this one. On the other hand, the easterly windswell keeps pumping and today it comes from 65 degrees, so it should hit our north shore better than the past few days. Home guess for Hookipa is around waist to head high with occasional bigger sets. Bigger on eastern exposures.

 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