MAUI WEATHER
For sure, any two days are never the same on Maui and many are blessed with glorious sunshine with just a few puffy white clouds driven along by the Pacific trade winds. The weather alone in Maui is enough to keep you enthralled and for me personally add to the charms of the island. At dawn the sun rises to the east up beyond Haiku and for those dedicated enough to have made the thirty eight mile drive up to the top of Haleakala (Maui’s 10,000 feet high dormant volcano) the view of the sunrise is truly spectacular. They call Haleakala ‘House of the sun’ and its eerie presence can always be felt wherever you are on the island. By 5 p.m. the sun has climbed across the sky towards the West Maui mountains, often casting ghostly rays between the valleys as it dips behind the lush green mountains. Some days when it is showery the rain only makes it as far as Paia, the main town on the north shore and sailors down the coast at Spreckelsville and Kanaha are blessed with the view of a perfect rainbow locked in upwind which sometimes can last thirty or forty minutes. The trades tend to kick in anytime between nine and noon, and once the east or north east winds start to rustle through the cane fields, Maui’s windsurf crew can be pretty sure there will be action on the water. From October right through until May there are waves in Hawaii pretty much every single day, ranging from head high to 50 feet and above!