First Alert Weather: Enjoy this sunny trade wind weather while you can

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The trade winds are back! Enjoy Hawaii’s natural air-conditioning while you can. Today and tomorrow there will be lots of sunshine, winds out of the ENE at 10-15mph, and mainly windward and mauka showers.

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The trades will weaken to light and variable by late Wednesday and languish through the end of the week as a low-pressure trough passes north of the islands. That also means an increase in clouds, showers and stickiness Thursday and Friday.

Breezy trade winds should return by the weekend.

Lala has moved far to our west (about 500 miles west of Lihue) and started to strengthen. At last check it was a Category 2 storm (winds sustained at 105 mph) and forecast to become a Cat 3 storm in the next day or two. No worry for us. Lala is headed north toward the Aleutian Islands.

There are two areas of concern to the southeast of us, both in the Eastern Pacific. The National Hurricane Center they have 70% and 80% chances of forming tropical cyclones in the next 7 days. We’ll keep an eye on them for you.

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Surf is mellowing along all shores today with a new south swell coming late Thursday/early Friday. The swell is energy from a storm last week just to the east of New Zealand.

View the latest weather conditions here.

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