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New Swell Expected Soon for Big Island

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Alerts (as of 1:00 a.m.)

Small Craft Advisory: Through 6 p.m. Friday.

Check our breaking news section for any urgent weather alerts or updates to the weather alerts listed above.

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

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Big Island Surf Forecast

Hilo side: Surf heights are expected to be knee/waist high today. The best spots could get a bit bigger on the sets.

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Kona side: Wave heights are expected to be knee/thigh high today. Many spots will be flat.

South: Wave heights are expected to be knee/thigh high today. Many spots will be flat.

Trade wind swell continues but is jumbled and messy.

Our current mix of southerly swells is still slowly fading. Nothing significant is expected out of the South Pacific in the near term. A small south-southeast swell is forecast to fill in Friday around knee/waist high.

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Nothing significant expected out of the North Pacific.

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.  

**Click here for your detailed Big Island weather report.**

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