Hawaii Extended Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 257 AM EST Tue Nov 05 2024 Valid 00Z Wed Nov 06 2024 - 00Z Wed Nov 13 2024 Expect anomalous moisture and a surface trough to linger over the islands through Tuesday, though with gradual tempering of heaviest rainfall totals. A cold front is still scheduled to arrive around Wednesday, followed by strong northeasterly winds late this week. Guidance continues to show various differences/trends with elongating upper level energy just northeast/east of the islands Thursday-Friday, followed by possible consolidation into an upper low somewhere between east and south/west of the main islands. This is evolution is small in scale and thus has fairly low predictability for specifics. Overall the dynamical and machine learning (ML) models have trended a little stronger with this energy late this week but they still suggest that the ECMWF is too deep and eastward with its upper low by Saturday. Overall the latest ML models suggest the weak upper low may track a tad south and west of the 00Z GFS, closer to the 00Z CMCens mean. As has been the case in recent days, the ECMWF weakens the surface gradient compared to other guidance but this difference is now somewhat less pronounced than it had been. Winds should become more easterly and moderate some speed-wise this weekend and early next week as high pressure progresses eastward across the mid-latitude Pacific. Showers will continue to focus over windward/mountain locales, with a relative min in precipitable water values late this week followed by one or more areas of greater moisture depending on the details of the possible upper low near the state. Rausch