Hawaii Surf Reports

Surf Outlook:  The south shores will find small surf breaking Thursday and Friday. Surf on the west shores will be very small to near flat through Friday. Wind swell waves will break on the east shores…generally on the small side through Friday. The north shores will find very small wind swell breaking…locally flat.

South shores -   Well find generally small surf breaking from whatever background south and southwest swells that are around…last into the weekend.  

West shores –  Surf will be very small, locally a little larger locally into the weekend.

East shores – Wind swell surf along these shores will remain active, although as the trade winds come down in strength some, so will the wind swell size. As the trade winds pick up later Friday into the weekend, the surf could rise modestly.

North shores - There will be some very small wind swell from the trade winds…although locally flat. There are no new northwest swells on the horizon.

Marine Warnings and Advisories:   Active watches and warnings

Note: Wave face readings are approximately twice the surf forecast numbers indicated in the tables above.

I want to thank all of the Hawaii Weather Today surf report team for all those years of reporting on the TV weather show…which is now finished: Ole Olson on Kauai; Kaleo Ohina, Ian Masterson and Kyle Stanford on Oahu; Steven Mark, Mike Napier, Ken Potts and Ron Busby on Maui…and finally David Hume on the Big Island. Thanks to Mr. Pat Caldwell on Oahu for his continuing surf forecast skills. ~~~ Steven Mark and Mike Napier, both continue to send me daily surf reports for Hookipa Beach Park on Maui, and the Kihei area on the south coast.

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Equatorial buoy
Waimea Buoy
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Lanai buoy

Pat Caldwell – NWS

Island swell shadow lines for Kauai Island swell shadow lines for Oahu
Island swell shadow lines for Maui Island swell shadow lines for Big Island NCEP Wave Model - animated

Oceanweather wave model
Lajolla Swell Model – animated
Stormsurf wave Model – animated

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