Winter in Maui
Wednesday morning here on Maui and we continue to have kind of unsettled weather. Lots of complex meteorological features hanging around. Winds on the weekend were pretty light, dare I say unsailable, unless you had formula gear. Monday and Tuesday were sailable if you were at the right place at the right time. Though I don't know for sure, I suspect Kihei had stronger winds the last few days, but looks like they were a bit offshore. Kanaha was a bit up and down the last few days, mostly on the light side thanks to wet squalls marching through on a regular basis and throwing a wet towel on the trade wind fun. According to NWS, the winds are supposed to slacken a bit more today as trough of low pressure to our east wobbles over us on its westward journey. Then they say we might have a little bump up again tomorrow. After that, they're pretty confused, "FROM FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND THE SITUATION REMAINS QUITE MURKY." All in all, this is pretty typical winter conditions here on Maui.
posted by Jeff at
8:00 AM
2 Comments:
I snuck over to Kanaha about 2:30 on Tuesday and managed to capture about 45 minutes of pure bliss on a 5.4 perfectly powered up on some sweet waves at uppers. NO ONE else was out at uppers, so I had what felt like the entire ocean to myself. It was raining and misting most of the time I was out, but the wind was rock steady the entire time. No sooner had I sailed back to the beach so I could return to work the winds shut down! I don't know if they came back up, but I was smiling the rest of the afternoon....
Speedy
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Anonymous, at 1:19 PM
I sailed lowers from about 2-4 p.m., 5.3. First it was light, barely anybody out, too onshore. Then the miracle happened, the wind turned sideshore and got strong enough, it got crowded as well, after about half an hour the wind died - right timimng was everything yesterday.
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Pascal, at 5:39 PM
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