Trade Swell Increasing, South Fading
Image: James Grenz
Alerts (as of 1:00 a.m.)
A Gale Warning is posted for all island waters starting Friday at 6 a.m. in the morning. Winds out of the east from 25 to 35 knots and seas of 8 to 12 feet are expected.
A Wind Advisory is posted from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday. Northeast to east winds from 15 to 30 mph are forecast with gusts getting up to 50 mph or more. Winds will be strongest over mauka areas and ridges and downslope of the mountains. Over the summit of Haleakalā winds could gust up to 60 mph.
**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 for spots exposed to the trade swell are expected to be around waist/head high.
Kona side: Wave heights are expected to be knee/thigh high today.
South: Wave heights are expected to be waist high or less today. Strongest around South Point with trade swell filling in.
Old south energy is fading through the weekend. New swells will fill in over the weekend and into early next week. Not really notable though with wave heights not expected to get higher than waist high. Looking farther out, we may see another round of swell starting around July 7th.
Trade swell will bring surf to northeast exposures but onshore breeze will pick up quickly during the day to chop it up. Trade swell is expected to pick up this weekend.
Quiet in the North Pacific at this time. A possible swell may be generated in the Eastern Pacific later this weekend or early next week. We will keep an eye on it.
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
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