Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Monday:

88  Lihue, Kauai
92  Honolulu, Oahu – the record highest temperature for Monday was 92…back in 1981 (Tied the record!)
87  Molokai
92  Kahului, Maui – the record highest temperature for Monday was 92…in 1980 and 1993 (Tied the record!)
88  Kailua Kona
88  Hilo, Hawaii

Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands, as of Monday evening:

0.04  Anahola, Kauai
0.02  Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu
0.00  Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.00  Maui
0.50  Kainaliu, Big Island

The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph)…as of Monday evening:

24  Port Allen, Kauai
27  Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu
28  Molokai
38  Lanai
31  Kahoolawe
29  Kahului AP, Maui
32  Kamuela AP, Big Island


Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live web cam on the summit of near 13,800 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. This web cam is available during the daylight hours here in the islands…and when there’s a big moon shining down during the night at times. Plus, during the nights you will be able to see stars, and the sunrise and sunset too… depending upon weather conditions.



Aloha Paragraphs




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Satellite imagery above shows a few clouds over the islands…
with high clouds to the southeast and southwest

Moderately strong trade winds will bring localized showers –
mostly over the windward sides during the nights and
early mornings  

A substantial increase in windward showers is expected late
Wednesday and Thursday…into the weekend

Small Craft Wind Advisory…windiest coasts and channels
around Maui County and the Big Island



~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~




Rebounding trade winds…moderately strong this week into early next week. Here’s the latest weather map, showing the Hawaiian Islands, and the rest of the North Pacific Ocean, along with a real-time wind profiler of the central Pacific. We find a mix of high pressure and low systems stretched out from the west-northwest, northwest, northeast, and east-northeast of Hawaii. There’s also several troughs of low pressure shore from the northwest, southwest, and southeast. Finally, there’s an early season cold front to the north of the islands…which is being pushed southward in our direction. Our recent bout of light winds will be giving way to the return of trade winds…attaining light to moderately strong levels.

Satellite imagery shows clear to partly cloudy skies...with some increase along our windward sides expected. Looking at this larger looping satellite image, it shows a few thunderstorms pulsing offshore to the west-southwest of Hawaii…along with high cirrus clouds approaching from the southwest. As the trade winds return, we’ll see a modest increase in windward biased showers…mostly during the night and early morning hours. Here’s the looping radar, showing a few showers moving locally across our island chain, although they are mostly located offshore. The outlook continues to show an early season cold front bringing marked increase in windward showers early Thursday into Friday, and perhaps into the weekend. We’ve seen the end of summer 2014, and the arrival of the autumnal equinox. I’ll be back with more updates on all of the above and below, I hope you have a great Monday night wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.


World-wide tropical cyclone activity:

 

>>> Atlantic Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones


Here’s a satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean

>>> Caribbean Sea:  There are no active tropical cyclones


>>> Gulf of Mexico:  There are no active tropical cyclones


Here’s a satellite image of the Caribbean Sea…and the Gulf of Mexico.

Here’s the link to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)

>>> Eastern Pacific:  There are no active tropical cyclones

 

1.)  Showers and thunderstorms associated with a low pressure area
located a couple of hundred miles south of Acapulco, Mexico, have
changed little in organization over the last several hours.
Upper-level winds are expected to become more conducive for
development, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the
next day or two while the low moves westward or west-northwestward
at about 10 mph.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...near 70 percent 
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent


Here’s a wide satellite image that covers the entire area between Mexico, out through the central Pacific…to the International Dateline.


>>> Central Pacific:  There are no active tropical cyclones


Here’s a link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC)


>>> Northwest Pacific Ocean:  Tropical storm 16W (Fung-wong) is dissipating, located about 351 NM west of Sasebo, Japan…with sustained winds of near 35 mph. Here’s a graphical track map…along with a satellite image – Final Warning


>>> South Pacific Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

>>> North and South Indian Oceans:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Here’s a link to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

 

Interesting: Fall foliage may be delayed, but will last longer – The fall foliage season that prompts millions of Americans to undertake jaunts into the countryside each year could come much later and possibly last a little longer within a century, according to new research.


Climate change could postpone fall leaf peeping in some areas of the United States as summer temperatures linger later into the year, Princeton University researchers report in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography. For instance, the paper birch — a popular foliage tree that is the state tree of New Hampshire — could change color one to three weeks later by the end of the century, the researchers found. Although some trees will be less susceptible to the ongoing heat than the paper birch, the more southern the region, the more likely there is to be a greater overall delay in leaf coloration, the researchers found.


Trees need daily temperatures to be low enough and daylight hours to be short enough to produce the vivid vistas of fall, explained senior author David Medvigy, an assistant professor of geosciences and associated faculty member at the Princeton Environmental Institute. He and first author Su-Jong Jeong, a former Princeton postdoctoral student now at NASA, found that daily temperature and daylight hours can not only be used to predict the timing of leaf coloration, but that the influence of these factors depends on the individual tree species and the specific geographic area.


“We’re really interested in understanding how these systems will change as we experience global warming or climate change,” Medvigy said. “What these results are suggesting is that different locations will change in different ways, and that these differences are actually going to be quite interesting.”


Aside from fall foliage and its economic importance to many areas, the research has broad implications for predicting growing seasons, agricultural productivity and ecosystem productivity, Medvigy said. In particular, a delay in when leaves change color could affect how much carbon an ecosystem removes from the atmosphere, which would partially combat the climate change that caused the delay in the first place, he said.


“When plants have green leaves, they’re doing photosynthesis and taking carbon out of the atmosphere,” Medvigy said. “The longer you have green leaves, the more carbon dioxide you can take out of the atmosphere. At least, that’s how the current thinking goes. So, figuring this out could potentially be important for understanding the impacts of climate change.”