Maui Surf

“Strengthening trade winds will produce large and rough surf along east facing shores through Tuesday,” the forecast stated.

The sport of surfing made history Saturday at Ho’okipa Beach Park, completing its first sanctioned high school surf season.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service are projecting surf of 5 to 8 feet along the east facing shores of Maui and Molokaʻi, prompting a high surf advisory for both islands through 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Forecasters with the NWS say surf is expected to be in the 6 to 9 foot range along the east facing shores, and will produce rip currents, and localized beach erosion.

Surf along the east facing shores of Maui and Molokaʻi is expected to be in the 6 to 10 foot level, prompting a high surf advisory by the National Weather Service.

Surf along the north facing shores of of Maui and Molokaʻi is expected to remain elevated at 14 to 18 feet today, according to an advisory issued by the National Weather Service.

About 30 surfers, bodyboarders, standup paddlers, and kayakers shared the waves inside Kahului Harbor Saturday afternoon.

Surf along the north facing shores of Maui is diminishing today, prompting the cancellation of a high surf warning that was issued earlier by the National Weather Service.

Surf is expected to peak at 25 to 35 feet on Saturday along the north shores of Maui, according to the latest forecast issued by the National Weather Service.

Forecasters expect surf to be in the 21 to 28 foot range along the north facing shores, and 15 to 22 feet along affected west shores.

A swell generating “extra-large to giant surf” is expected to generate 25- to 35-foot surf along the north and west facing shores of affected islands beginning late Saturday.

Surf heights are expected to be in the 18 to 24-foot range along the north facing shores, and 12 to 18 feet along affected west facing shores.

The National Weather Service has extended the high surf advisory for the north facing shores of Maui and the north and west facing shores of Molokaʻi until midnight on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014.

A high surf warning has been extended until 6 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, due to ongoing hazardous conditions.

Over the next couple of days, the north facing shores of Maui will be hounded by a massive northwest swell so big that the National Weather Service has issued a high-surf warning in effect through Friday morning.

Forecasters say the surf made its way down to Niʻihau and Kauaʻi overnight, and is expected to reach Oʻahu by sunrise, and reach Maui and Molokaʻi by mid-morning today.

This year’s annual Pa’ia Bay Beachfest drew a record number of participants, forcing the organizers to extend the competition one more day.

The forecast calls for surf to be in the 40 to 50 foot range along the north facing shores of affected islands; 20 to 30 feet along the west facing shores of Oʻahu and Molokaʻi; and 12 to 18 feet along the west facing shores of Hawaiʻi Island.

Organizers of the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big wave invitational at Waimea Bay, officially announced this afternoon that the event is a “NO GO” for Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014.

A high surf warning remains in effect until 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, for the north and west facing shores of Molokaʻi, and the north facing shores of Maui.