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This post will be updated with new insights and play-by-play every few minutes.

While there’s currently no livestream, you can follow along on social media via @vanssurf, @surfline, and @stab. You can also click here for the heat updates, and here for the full leaderboard

Individual waves in a Hawaiian swell can be estimated to travel at around 3x the swell period, according to Sean Collins.

So, a 17-second swell like the one which arrived yesterday evening should be moving at about 51 Nautical miles per hour — or 94 kmh.

These semi-truck speeds would explain why the swell size and angle seems to alter so rapidly here on the North Shore — from flat yesterday morning, to 20-foot last night, to still scary but manageable today.

This mornings’ trade wind wobble looks quite similar to one sunrise last year, before some second reef sets arrived emphatical

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