High Surf Advisory Posted for East Shores

Alerts

A Small Craft Advisory is posted for Big Island windward waters through 6 a.m. Tuesday. East winds are expected up to 30 knots and seas up to 13 feet.

A Gale Warning is posted for winds up to 35 knots and seas up to 15 feet in the Alenuihaha channel and to the south and west of the Big Island. The warning is posted through 6 a.m. Tuesday.

A High Surf Advisory is posted for east shores through 6 p.m. Wednesday for 6 to 10 foot faces.

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**Click directly on the images below to make them larger. Charts include: Big Island projected winds, tides, swell direction & period and expected wave heights.**

Big Island Surf Forecast

Hilo side: Wave heights are expected head high to overhead with the best breaks getting up to well overhead today.

Kona side: Wave heights are expected to be pretty flat today.

South: Breaks open to the trade swell could get up to head high or overhead at the best exposures. Out of the south-southwest surf will be pretty flat.

A big surge in easterly winds has brought small craft advisory and gale warning conditions over the coastal waters. Trade swell is expected to gradually ease over the next couple of days as winds weaken some. The rough seas will maintain high surf along east facing shores of the islands. The high surf warning for east facing shores has been cancelled but a high surf advisory is posted through midweek.

A northwest swell is expected to peak Tuesday and ease Wednesday.

Nothing of note expected out of the Southern Hemisphere for the final weeks of 2015.

Keep in mind, surf heights are measured on the face of the wave from trough to crest. Heights vary from beach to beach, and at the same beach, from break to break.  

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Image: NOAA / NWS

Image: NOAA /NWS

Image: NOAA /NWS

Image: NOAA /NWS

Image: NOAA /NWS

Image: NOAA /NWS

Image: NOAA /NWS