Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha paragraphs

Our local winds were slightly lighter Tuesday, which will bounce back into the light to moderately strong range Wednesday.  Weather maps show that a low pressure system to the northwest of Kauai, pushed our trade wind producing ridge of high pressure down closer to the islands. This in turn clocked our local winds around to the east-southeast locally. Winds from this direction put some parts of the state in a wind shadow behind the Big Island. As we get into Wednesday, the winds will likely turn back to the more customary easterly trade wind direction, and pick up a notch in strength. The trade winds will then continue through the rest of the week, strengthening further this weekend into next week.
 
There will be a few showers around, although nothing of particular note is expected. As the trade winds pick up some Wednesday, we’ll see the return of those normal passing showers along the windward coasts and slopes. The night and early morning hours will have the greatest likelihood of these few raindrops. The leeward sides will remain quite sunny and dry during the days, warm too. The Kona slopes on the Big Island, may see some late afternoon, or early evening showers falling locally. 

It’s Tuesday evening as I begin updating this last paragraph of today’s narrative.  As noted in the two paragraphs above, our weather here in the Hawaiian Islands will be just fine, really nice as a matter of fact! Our local beaches, at least most of them, basked in warm early spring sunshine Tuesday. I see no reason to believe that anything drastic will occur to change these positive weather conditions over the next couple of days, and for that matter…through the rest of this week. ~~~ Wednesday is a state holiday here in the islands, called Prince Kuhio Day. There’s a major parade that takes place in Honolulu, with marching bands, orchestras and color guards. It is celebrated to honor the birthday of Hawaii’s second delegate to Congress. Prince Kuhio was born in Koloa, Kauai, in 1871. As such, I have the day off from doing the tv weather show, and from regular day job in Kihei as well. ~~~ I’ll be back Wednesday morning nonetheless, with your next new weather narrative from paradise. I hope you have a great Tuesday night wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Interesting3: A new study predicts water circulation in Lake Tahoe is being dramatically altered by global warming, threatening the lake’s delicate ecosystem and famed clear waters. The University of California, Davis study said one likely consequence is warmer lake temperatures that will mean fewer cold-water native fish and more invasive species — like carp, large-mouth bass and bluegill. "What we expect is that deep mixing of Lake Tahoe’s water layers will become less frequent, even nonexistent, depleting the bottom waters of oxygen,” said Geoffrey Schladow, director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at U.S. Davis. Schladow, Associate Director John Reuter and postdoctoral researcher Goloka Sahoo presented the findings last week in Incline Village at a conference focusing on global warming and deep-water lakes. The changes, the study concluded, could turn Tahoe’s famed cobalt-blue waters to a murky green in about a decade. "A permanently stratified Lake Tahoe becomes just like any other lake or pond,” Schladow said. "It is no longer this unique, effervescent jewel, the finest example of nature’s grandeur.”  On average, water in Lake Tahoe — at 1,644 feet deep — mixes every four years, the researchers said.