Over the last couple of days the North Pacific storm track has really started to wake up, and like most of us it really isn't a morning person...in fact it is really f-ing grumpy…hangover grumpy…like how grumpy you would be if you woke up from a 36-hour drinking binge still on the bathroom floor and your upstairs neighbor was doing tae-bo and playing death metal at max volume. Yeah the North Pacific looks that grumpy.
The short-range forecast is showing a very serious storm developing in the next 3-4 days that will very likely send a super-sized swell to Hawaii by the end of the week.
Check out this wave-model forecast for this storm. (As always a big thanks to Mark at Stormsurf.com for letting me use his images…make sure to check out his site www.stormsurf.com )
No that is not an island sitting to the North of Hawaii…it is a big ass storm, fueled by a mixture of a cold storm from Siberia and a nice energy laden extra-tropical system from over by Japan. These extra-tropical storms are gnarly…almost ever major swell generated in the North Pacific is a result of a storm going extra-tropical.
And yes you are reading that right…the model is calling for nearly 50-foot seas near the core of the storm.
Based on today’s forecasts I am expecting almost 15-20-foot of deepwater NW swell hitting Hawaii on Friday and peaking into Saturday (Nov 28-29th). Swells with that much deepwater energy, when they hit those steep reefs around Hawaii, generally create waves in the 25-30’ face range at the average spots and potentially some 30-40-foot faces at top breaks like Jaws over on Maui.
If it pulls together it should be pretty spectacular.
2 comments:
Sexy mackers!!!
sounds impressive. is it going to be sending waves this direction (socal) sometime next week?
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