August 10, 2005
8/11
THURSDAY...surf around the islands has brought it up a notch with unparalleled flatness on all shores of hawaii. current buoy reports are showing me very little in the way of energy with all buoys registering in the 8sec bands or less. locally the waimea and kailua buoys are showing weak windswekk in the 5-6sec bands which translates to chop. tomorrow surf will be waist to knee on the eastside which should top the list. other shores that are more accustomed to ground swelll will be flat to 1ft as there is no ground swell near the islands.
SHORT TERM FORECAST
surf will continue to be small, weak and gutless for the next 5 days. there is some relief in site however. downunder a semi-powerful storm looks to form east of new zealand in an opportune window for hawaii. the storm looks to form late sunday and continue cranking until sometime on wednesday. with winds in excess of 40+mph and a fairly good fetch of around 600nm this could translate into waves along southern shores late next weekend. as with models that far in advance i'll know more when the next forecast comes out on friday or saturday. the tropics of the east pacific are looking to start popping off in the models as well with at least two storms firing up over the next 7 days. with hurricanes i rarely believe the models so take this with a grain of salt. finally the north pacific lookd to form a gyre in far northwestern pacific hugging the aleutian islands later this weekend . with a sizable fetch aimed at hawaii and winds of near 30mph our first north swellcould roll in next week. it won't be much, but anything will do at this point.
Posted by megaprober at August 10, 2005 11:10 PM