New buoys to bolster Hawaii's surf reports
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
'Conditions fair, south shore waves flat to 1 foot -- the swells might be the same, but the Hawaii surf report you hear every morning is getting an upgrade.
The Coast Guard said yesterday it has placed two new weather buoys off Kauai and Oahu that will give more precise readings on how large waves will be and what island shores they will hit.
For example, the new device 120 miles northwest of Kauai could allow meteorologists to limit a high-surf advisory just to Oahu's North Shore when the older buoy model would have indicated massive waves for both West Oahu and the North Shore.
"It will help us fine-tune our forecasts," said Bob Burke, a meteorologist at the Honolulu office of the National Weather Service...'
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