NW Swell Fades, More Swells Ahead

Ho’okipa 4.16.15 / Image: Jimmie Hepp

By Meteorologist Malika Dudley / Email: [email protected]

Alerts

Small Craft Advisory is posted for the Pailolo and ʻAlenuihāhā channels  as well as  Māʻalaea Bay through 6 p.m. Sunday. East winds up to 30 knots and rough seas up to 15 feet are forecasted. Inexperienced mariners should avoid navigating in these conditions.

**Click directly on the images below to make them larger. Charts include: Maui County projected winds, forecasted swell direction, height & period, tides, a surface map and expected wave heights.**

Maui County Surf Forecast

North: Wave heights are expected to be head high to a couple feet overhead at the best breaks on the sets. Smaller by sundown.

West: Wave heights thigh to chest high at the breaks open to the northwest swell. Otherwise, pretty flat conditions are expected today for spots shadowed from the swells.

South: Knee to waist high waves are expected today.

Our current solid northwest swell will slowly fade out Friday into the weekend.

A reinforcing northwest is expected to move in Sunday into early next week.

Small south-southwest reinforcement swell continues through Friday. New south-southwest pulses expected over the weekend and into early next week.

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