By Associated Press - Monday, May 26, 2014

HONOLULU (AP) - Cooling tradewinds are returning to Hawaii, but forecasters say possible showers remain in the forecast through Tuesday.

The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports (https://tinyurl.com/ko3v9gr ) the threat of thunderstorms should ease by Tuesday as the tradewinds become established.

The weekend storm system over Oahu and Kauai continued into Monday, prompting a flood advisory for Windward Oahu until nearly noon.

The Honolulu Airport saw record rainfall on Sunday with 1.94 inches recorded. That breaks the old record for that date of .09 inches set in 1996.

Record rainfall was also recorded on Saturday in Honolulu and Lihue. The 1.1 inches of rain broke the old record of .1 inches set on May 24, 1956 in Honolulu. Lihue’s new record of .83 inches broke the old record of .37 set on May 24, 1986.

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