Hawaii Surf Forecast Monday Night Tuesday: South Swell Building to High Surf Warning Levels This Weekend

About this episode

The episode discusses the upcoming surf conditions in Hawaii, highlighting a significant south swell and potential high surf warnings.

Good evening, this is your Hawaii surf forecast for Monday night into Tuesday. We're tracking an exciting week ahead with multiple southern hemisphere swells stacking up in the pipeline. Right now, a building long-period south swell is overlapping with a fading medium-period system, which means south-facing shores are already feeling the action. Tonight and into Tuesday, expect south shore surf to climb to around seasonal average levels before a brief dip midweek. But here's where it gets really interesting. A storm just southeast of New Zealand is churning up some serious conditions, with seas exceeding 40 feet aimed directly at Hawaii. We're watching this development closely, and confidence is growing that south shore surf will well exceed High Surf Advisory levels come this weekend. Sunday into early next week could bring High Surf Warning conditions as this major south-southwest swell arrives. To make matters more dramatic, this swell coincides with peak monthly tides, so we're talking significant wave runup and potential impacts to coastal infrastructure. That's something to keep an eye on if you live near the shore. In the near term, east-facing shores will continue a slow…

Topics covered

• surf forecast
• south swell
• high surf warning
• Hawaii
• coastal infrastructure
• weather conditions

Keywords

• Hawaii surf forecast
• south swell
• high surf warning
• coastal impacts
• weather conditions

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Hawaii, New Zealand, Kauai

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