The season’s second very large northwest swell filled into Hawaiian shores on November 24th. As of 6am, the Waimea Bay buoy was a whopping 19.7 feet at 20 seconds, with a wave energy of 28710 kJ.

This one was always going to come in bigger than expected. There was just something about the way the storm formed up that felt…colossal, as Chris Owens described it numerous times today. After a ...