Starting on Friday, Maui’s trade winds slacked off form the levels we’ve been having for the last few weeks. Light winds dominated the racing conditions at the 21st annual Hawaii State Windsurfing Championship at Kanaha.
Weather today was heavily dominated by former tropical storm Genevieve which brought lots of clouds and rain to Maui and made for some gray up and down wind conditions. Not really post card perfect Maui windsurfing weather today.
Things should start returning to more normal conditions tomorrow as the tropical system exits and high pressure rebuilds, which will allow the trades to build to normal levels. Forecasters are predicting strong trades by midweek. Time for the small sails again.
In other Maui Windsurfing new, the Maui News just ran a story on Kanaha’s own PWA rookie, Greg Thomas. Need a little motivation to pursue your windsurfing dream? Check out the article, and Greg’s blog.
Looks like the waves this coming fall and winter might be a little less crowded. The Maui News also reports today that tourism this summer has declined significantly and that expectations for this coming fall season are that there will be even less tourists visiting Maui and Hawaii. It’ll be interesting to see if that actually carries over to visiting windsurfers. From my perspective, Kanaha this summer has still been pretty busy with vacationing windsurfers, although it seems like a higher proportion are from Europe vs U.S. and Canada than normal.
