Posted at 12:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Weather update: Expect misty weather through Saturday
Advertiser staff
Halloween traditionally signals the start of Hawaii's annual wet season, but the ongoing "nuisance trade-wind showers indicate the change of seasons is gradually approaching," National Weather Service Senior Meteorologist Roy Matsuda said today."We think of the proverbial wet season as beginning about Halloween and lasting through the time we pay our taxes," Matsuda said.
The current widespread misty weather is expected to last through Saturday when the trade winds will die down and be replaced by gentle southeasterly winds, Matsuda said.
The current late-evening and early-morning trade wind showers over the next several days will likely give way over the weekend to spotty afternoon rains over a smaller land area but the rains may be a bit heavier, Matsuda said.
In general, the trade-wind showers haven't amounted to any more than a half-inch at any of the rain-gauge locations monitored by the National Weather Service.
