Bratty Nemesis
I was hoping to be able to report some sailing today. Alas, the weather didn't cooperate. This week we've seen some pretty typical winter weather for Maui. High pressure got shoved down too close to us to provide us with trade winds so we had pretty light and variable conditions Monday through Wednesday. Sea breezes built strong enough a couple of those days to provide guys with Formula gear enough to get out and sail (judging from the graphs, I have no reports from anyone to confirm this).
Yesterday we saw the passage of a typical winter shear line. I had never heard the term shear line before I moved to Maui, but it's basically the trailing end of a cold front. The cold fronts amble across the north pacific in the winter, providing us with our beloved winter swells. These fronts are usually pretty far to our north, but they trail along a "shear line" behind them like a 10 year old kid dragging his coat along behind him, dragging it through the puddles and mud. And like that 10 year old brat's dragging coat, the shear lines drag in clouds, rain and other muck to sully our beautiful sunshine and trade winds.
Anyway, so yesterday we experienced the 10 year old's coat dragging along through the Hawaiian island chain slopping us with rain. He was supposed to have cleared through by this morning with a nice high pressure system builing in behind him with our beloved trade winds. The weather geeks were predicting 20 - 25 with gusts to 40. Alas, I think the 10 year old dropped his coat on top of us, leaving us under soggy, gray skies and lack of wind today. That pre-pubescent brat! Hey kid, isn't that your mom calling you! That's right! And don't forget your coat! Ha! My best weather guess is that our 10 year old nemesis will have picked up his errant coat and cleared out of here tomorrow, making way for our trade winds. Kids! Sheesh!
Yesterday we saw the passage of a typical winter shear line. I had never heard the term shear line before I moved to Maui, but it's basically the trailing end of a cold front. The cold fronts amble across the north pacific in the winter, providing us with our beloved winter swells. These fronts are usually pretty far to our north, but they trail along a "shear line" behind them like a 10 year old kid dragging his coat along behind him, dragging it through the puddles and mud. And like that 10 year old brat's dragging coat, the shear lines drag in clouds, rain and other muck to sully our beautiful sunshine and trade winds.
Anyway, so yesterday we experienced the 10 year old's coat dragging along through the Hawaiian island chain slopping us with rain. He was supposed to have cleared through by this morning with a nice high pressure system builing in behind him with our beloved trade winds. The weather geeks were predicting 20 - 25 with gusts to 40. Alas, I think the 10 year old dropped his coat on top of us, leaving us under soggy, gray skies and lack of wind today. That pre-pubescent brat! Hey kid, isn't that your mom calling you! That's right! And don't forget your coat! Ha! My best weather guess is that our 10 year old nemesis will have picked up his errant coat and cleared out of here tomorrow, making way for our trade winds. Kids! Sheesh!
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