Honolulu residents can expect light winds and a dry weather pattern to persist through tomorrow, with isolated showers mostly affecting the east and southeast slopes during the morning hours. According to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service (NWS) in Honolulu, a moistening airmass is expected to gradually increase shower activity across the Hawaiian state from tomorrow through Tuesday. The NWS also anticipates “a few rumbles of thunder possible early next week as a disturbance aloft dives southward over the state.”
For now, the land and sea will decide to rhythmically push and pull our local weather conditions, with land and sea breezes being predominant through the early part of next week. “A return to more typical trade wind weather featuring mainly windward and mauka showers appears take hold during the middle to latter part of next week,” the NWS predicted. The winds, as they are, seem unwilling to fully commit to any dramatic change just yet, with this relative calm allowing the land and sea breezes to share dominion over the Hawaiian skies.
The calm extends to ocean conditions as well, where mariners will find locally fresh southeast winds gradually easing off and small, long-period northwest swells crossing local waters. While these conditions are keeping the surf near or below seasonal averages, the NWS does forecast a medium long-period north northwest swell could be entering waters by Thursday, with the potential of surf approaching high surf advisory levels…