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It looks like things are going to quiet down quite a bit for this coming weekend. The Southern Hemisphere ground swell that's been in place all week starts to diminish leaving a weak northwest wind swell in its place.
Building surface high pressure over the Eastern Pacific Ocean will continue to allow for strong northwesterly winds to prevail through Thursday, with gale force gusts across the outer coastal waters.
Strong high pressure remains nearly stationary far northeast of the state, while a trough over 400 nm northwest of Kauai drifts westward. As a result, fresh to strong easterly trade winds Big Island and and Maui waters veer out of the east-southeast around Oahu and Kauai.