Back to super light winds here on Maui. We got some good wind on Thursday when seemingly every windsurfer on the island converged on Lowers Kanaha. I heard Hookipa was pretty trashy so most of the Hookipa regulars came to Kanaha as they tend to do when Hookipa gets to big and sloppy. The county [...]

The long overdue and much anticipated return of some decent strength trade winds finally took place on Thursday. Before that I can’t remember how long it had been since I’d been properly powered up.
Strong winds were supposed to return on Wednesday and I suppose if you count Kihei then they did. Kanaha was again super [...]

After weeks of being pummeled and battered by low pressure systems and cold fronts, Maui’s trade wind-producing high pressure finally got a chance to pull itself up off the matt yesterday and stumble into position to provide us with some light trade winds – true trade winds, not Konas, not post-frontal northerlies.
Granted the wind was [...]

I’m running out of ways to report on the lack of trade winds here on Maui. Our seemingly endless streak of doldrums continues. Beautiful weather though. Another cold front is due to pass over Maui tonight and stall and dissipate tomorrow. Wind Guru is showing promising numbers but I think they’re going to be wrong [...]

Maui’s long streak of light or no trade winds has continued for the past week. That’s not to say there’s no wind though. The last few days we’ve had Kona winds – winds from the southwest rather than our normal northeast trade winds.
Winds looked strongest at Kihei yesterday with the sensor there reporting averages of [...]