Hookipa yesterday.
6am Surfline significant
buoy readings and discussion.
South shorePearl Harbor entrance
Barbers is now down too together with Hanalei, Pauwela and Lanai: bad times for the NOAA buoys. PH only shows windswell and the cam shows almost flat. Check the
Kihei webcam if interested,
for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW001
N
Waimea
Hilo
Mokapu
Interesting how the NW buoys don't register the new northerly swell that instead is hitting the N one. My guess is that it comes from the fetch in the map of yesterday below, situated too east for the related swell to hit the location of the NW buoys, even with the angular spreading. It is hitting Waimea though, that shows a reading of 2ft 17s. Overall it's a swell that is traveling to our east, and it might end up being bigger in Maui than in Oahu. Without Pauwela and with Hilo only starting to receive energy now (1.3ft 20s), it's very hard to predict how big it's going to get locally. The Surfline forecast calls for 4ft 18s in the morning building to almost 8ft 16s in the afternoon, but it seems too optimistic in my opinion. All this said, the home guess for
Hookipa becomes a shot in the dark more than usual: head to occasionally head and a half in the morning and much bigger in the afternoon.
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
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