Ongoing "nuisance trade-wind showers indicate the change of seasons is gradually approaching" for Hawai'i, Roy Matsuda, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said yesterday.

"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 being experienced throughout the Islands is expected to last through Saturday when the trade winds will die down and be replaced by gentle southeasterly winds, Matsuda said.

Late-evening and early-morning trade-wind showers over the next couple of 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.