Brrrrr!

Ok, who brought the cold weather with them? Weather here on Maui has been cool and stormy since Saturday. Saturday was a drencher for the whole island until late in the afternoon. No windsurfing that day. Yesterday, was weird. We got a weird NNW wind at Kanaha- almost dead onshore wind. We weren't expecting it. I just happened to check iWindsurf for the hell of it and saw it reporting mid-20s. We scrambled down to the beach. It was pretty weird seeing people sailing along parallel to shore, up and down the north shore coast. It was gray and cold. I went out with a 5.8 and my wave board. Got planing a few times but with the onshore wind, I really needed a bigger board to do much (I won't go into why I couldn't use my big board. Let's just say it was stung by a Scorpionfish and is out of commission). Anyway, on the few reaches where I could get planing it was pretty cool to sail up to Camp One and Sprecks, parallel to the beach.

Today's weather is just weird. Temperatures are in the low low 70s, it's cloudy, wind directions are all messed up. It's windy as hell on the volcanoes, but nothing sailable at sea level. Kihei tried to get windy, but failed. The weather models are saying we're supposed to be getting west winds today and tomorrow. West winds? This is Maui not the Gorge! What's up with that?