Maui winds continue their atypical pattern for July with mostly light winds on the north shore over the last several days. Trade winds have been weak enough to allow day time sea breezes to set up and prevail most days. Friday and Saturday we saw light, sailable conditions on the north shore. Thursday and Saturday however were a bit too light for most people's quivers. Yesterday looks like it was a Kihei day. Winds at Kanah never got above 15 and were very northerly, while Kihei saw winds hitting the upper 20s.

To further complicate things this week, we've got another member of the former-hurricane club, Daniel, heading directly towards us. Daniel was a category 1 hurricane as recently as yesterday but weakened significantly last night. Good thing too. Current forecast path is for Daniel to hit the south end of the Big Island Thursday evening and pass just south of Maui Friday morning. Projected wind speeds at that time are in the 40mph range. Until then, our current light trade wind pattern will prevail.