April 13, 2006
4/14
FRIDAY...surf is looking to bump up from both the west-northwest and the north-northeast. at current time the buoys are showing very little of either swell, but with the cranking winds right now low energy ground swell will certainly be masked. north-northeast swell will not be indicated by buoy 1 as it does not lie upstream from that swell direction, therefore the waimea buoy needs monitoring. back in the days we had the molokai buoy, but that has been out of commision for years. the west-northwest swell will likely not show until the afternoon as it is travelling from a very remote source and may be smaller than originally predicted. the call is for small surf early in the day with rising north-norteast swell early on with sets appraching the 5ft mark. later the west-northwest swell should start to show with sets near in the 3ft range. also of mention is a south-southwest swell that is due to arrive late in the day out 212deg. this direction means that the source of the swell is the tasman sea and generally swells from this region are very difficult to predict due to the many south pacific islands that are in our line of site.
Posted by megaprober at April 13, 2006 09:21 PM