Hookipa yesterday.
5am Surfline significant
buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
Lanai
The buoys show a new 17s energy from 200. Below are the maps of May 9 through 12 that show the fetch that generated it indicated with a red stick. I used a black stick instead to indicate the fetch that generated a much bigger swell that should start arriving tomorrow and overlap to today's one bringing the size up a couple of notches. Surfline calls for 2.8ft 15s for the first and 2.8ft 18s for the second tomorrow afternoon. A lot will depend on the wind, which will follow the unsettled weather pattern associated with a low developing to our north.
Check the
Kihei webcam if interested,
for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
Hanalei
Waimea
Pauwela
In the past few days there have been multiple small fetches that generated the different NW-N energies at the buoys. Home guess for
Hookipa is around waist to shoulder high with possible bigger sets.
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
