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surf report isn't looking good dude....
MAUI BEACHES:
Hana: 1/2-1 foot North shore: 2-3 feet...gradually dropping through Tuesday
Hookipa Beach Park: 1-3 feet...gradually dropping through Tuesday East shore: 1-2 feet
Kanaha Beach Park: 2 feet......gradually dropping through Tuesday West shore: 2 feet......gradually dropping through Tuesday
Kahului Harbor: 0-1 foot South shore: 1-2 feet
Kihei: 0-1 foot BIG ISLAND BEACHES
Maalaea Bay: 0-1 foot West side: 2 feet......gradually dropping through Tuesday
Lahaina: 0-1 foot South shore: 0-1 foot
Upper West side: 1-2 feet......gradually dropping through Tuesday North shore: 2-3 feet......gradually dropping through Tuesday
East shore: 0-1 foot or so
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LANAI BEACHES:
Hulopoe Bay: 1/2-1 foot
Sharks Bay: 0-1 foot
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Surf Notes:
The juicy late season swell that brought large waves to the north and NW shores of the islands over the weekend, are on the decline now. This swell arrived very late in the season, generated by a deep winter-like storm in the NW Pacific...actually the combination of a low pressure system and a former typhoon that slid by to the east of Guam and Saipan in the western Pacific the previous week. The largest waves from this high surf episode that I heard about broke at Hookipa Beach Park here on Maui, topping out at somewhere near 8 feet or so! I wonder if it was a little larger at some other breaks around the state...like on Oahu? At any rate, this surf is still around Monday, but getter smaller quickly. The local buoy reports early Monday morning were reading only 5-6 feet, however the intervals between wave crests were still pretty long, at 10-13 seconds at the 4 a.m. hour. Today's weather map shows another much less intense storm to the NW of the state, with its associated fetch pointing towards the islands. It's central pressure is only 993 millibars, so that the winds aren't that strong rotating around it, although maybe it could bring us another bump around the Wednesday-Thursday time frame...small kine at best though.
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