Light winds and scant rainfall are forecast for the next two days — gloomy news for firefighters, people with breathing problems and others not looking forward to ringing in 2010 with fireworks.

“Showers will linger over Kauai and Oahu today as a weak front stalls just north of the Garden Isle,” the National Weather Service said today in its Hawaii Area Synopsis. “The rest of the state will see light and variable winds persisting through New Year’s Eve with little rainfall expected. Trade winds return temporarily Friday with light windward and mauka showers expected.”
The weather service says today will be mostly sunny with haze and tomorrow partly cloudy with haze.
Highs will be 79 to 84 degrees and winds will be variable from 5 to 15 mph.