HONOLULU (KHON2) – After a breezy several days, trade winds are on a steady decline this afternoon while the atmosphere is gradually destabilizing.
Trades are dropping as surface high pressure to the northeast is pushed away from the region and the local pressure gradient relaxes due to surface low pressure developing along a front about 1,000 miles northwest of Kauai.
A weak low aloft is already parked over the islands, and as the upper-level trough generating the surface low approaches, the atmosphere is gradually destabilizing…