BRRRRR!!!

The most noticeable feature of Maui weather the last few days have been the below normal temperatures. I'm sure those of you elsewhere in the world won't feel sorry for us here, but temperatures at sea level have only been hitting the mid 70s this week. But travel upcountry a bit and it gets even colder. The other day we didn't get out of the low 60s up here and this morning is a nippy 52 degrees.

The winds have been mostly out of the north this week. We had another shear line come through mid-week and winds always turn from out of the north after that, bringing in cooler temperatures. This usually makes Kihei the windier place to sail than Maui's north shore. Sounds like a fewe people sailed Kanaha on Wednesday afternoon's northerly winds, doing coast runs up and down the coast. I hear the west side was a cranking 4.5 and nice waves.

I braved the cool wind chill yesterday briefly to sail 5.8 and 90L. When I rigged it would have been enough, but the winds pulled a bait and switch on me and promptly dropped a few notches, barely blowing the upper teens while I was out.

Today is beginning sunny, clear and cool once again. Winds are forecast to be somewhat light and to turn out of the east a bit more which should start to warm things up. The weather geeks are all confused about what's supposed to happen to our weather starting on Sunday. Sounds like it could get wet for a few days.