Oahu's winds continue to be the main character in this week's weather narrative as the Honolulu Weather Forecast indicates that breezy trade winds are expected to stick around until tonight before taking a slight pause. What this means for locals and vacationers is a steady dance of winds that have been kind to the state so far, maintaining a dry airmass that keeps rainfall on the lower end of the scale, as per the NWS.
According to the National Weather Service's latest update, windward and mountainous areas remain the favored locations for any light showers that may occurtypically happening overnight or in the early morning hours, this subsistent inversion has resulted in most 24-hour rainfall totals being under a quarter of an inch, but it's doing little to help the parched leeward areas where drought conditions only deepen. A disturbance aloft makes headway later this week, promising an uptick in moisture and potentially more rain coverage come tomorrow night and into the weekend.
For aviation, it's mostly good news: moderate to locally breezy conditions will prevail, but mostly VFR. Pilots should keep an eye out for brief periods of MVFR visibilities along windward and mountain slopes in the early hours. As for those with their feet firmly on the ground, if you're planning on enjoying the water, take note that the Small Craft Advisory remains in force for parts of Maui and the Big Island until early tomorrow morning.
The surf is also set for a bit of drama—short-period swells from the south are set to wane later today, but a gradual increase in surf heights could be on the horizon due to a longer period swell arriving on Friday and E Pacific tropical cyclone activity stirring the waters, these waves are likely to make the coming weekend a memorable one for surf enthusiasts.
