It was sunny in some places on O'ahu, cloudy in others and pouring everywhere else yesterday.

The squirrelly weather is expected to continue through tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service.

It was only fitting, perhaps, with the current conditions and today being Friday the 13th, that a lead forecaster named Sam Houston, originally from East Tennessee, would be talking about weather in Hawai'i.

Sunset Beach resident Lynn Cicatko saw it all yesterday.

"When I left home at 10 in the morning it was sunny, a typical morning on the North Shore," Cicatko said. "When I was coming back from running errands in town it was pouring in Mililani and Wahiawa, and grey and drizzling at Sunset Beach at 4 in the afternoon."

Houston said yesterday's rainfall, mostly in the afternoon, was concentrated in Windward and Central O'ahu. The rainfall at 'Ahuimani was 2.47 inches in the six-hour period that ended at 5 p.m.; between 1 and 2 inches fell in Mililani in a three-hour period.

It'll be more of the same for the next few days, said Houston. That means light breezes from the south and the chance of showers in the afternoon.

"We have a front coming down that will reach Kaua'i early Sunday, then pass over O'ahu before hitting Maui Sunday night," Houston said. "The front will increase showers."

No trade winds are expected for a while, Houston added.

And, yes, Houston claims to be a "distant relative" of the Texas patriot.

Reach Rod Ohira at rohira@honoluluadvertiser.com.