The Eddie Goes On Yellow Alert
The photos from the opening ceremony are still doing the social media rounds, meanwhile, the organisers of the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational are preparing for an early party.
The North Shore has been indulged by a solid run of north-west energy with one spike, due to hit this Sunday 22nd December - Monday Australian time - expected to cross the Eddie threshhold of 20'. With it, the organisers have issued a yellow alert
Current models have the swell undersized at first light but ramping quickly northwards for a midday/afternoon peak. Winds at this stage appear to be light nor'east.
The waiting period for The Eddie opened last Friday, December 13, 2024 and runs through to March 13, 2025.
Luke Shepardson winning the 2023 edition of the Eddie (Matheus Pacheco)
The last Eddie winner was local North Shore lifeguard Luke Shepardson, who won it in 2023. Sheppardson was just the tenth winner in the forty years since the Eddie was first held.
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Reckon they’ll run it Stu forecast looks pretty good ?
A cursory look at the forecast looks good, though they'd really wanna hope it arrives on time as any later they'll be in trouble getting it done for the day.
Craig's been paying more attention to recent patterns in the N Pac so maybe he'll weigh in here.
Yep I reckon they'll pull the trigger and run if they're going on yellow, as there isn't likely to be a downgrade from here. If it weakens a touch it will put the arrival back a bit further in time and more so mid-late morning.
Right now there should be strong sets arriving shortly after dawn, though strongest from mid-morning and peaking into the afternoon.
The main issue for me is how north the swell will be and the longer-period nature of it which isn't ideal.
In saying this, surrounding the core hurricane-force winds is quite a significant fetch of strong to gale-force winds and this will help pad out any long-period sets that may get steered away.
I'd expect bay closeouts.
You bloody beauty. Saw the forecast 3 days ago and have been waiting a call. Let’s hope the stars align.
A warm up session
https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,21.626,-158.048,14,m:ehfaLI
were 21 hrs ahead of Hawaiian time .... they have 3hrs of sun before the east coast of Oz