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

86  Lihue, Kauai
90  Honolulu, Oahu – record high temperature for Monday was 92 degrees…back in 1995, 2004
88  Molokai
90  Kahului, Maui – record high temperature for Monday was 94 degrees…back in 1951
88  Kailua Kona
87  Hilo, Hawaii

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


0.61  N Wailua ditch, Kauai
0.04  Punaluu Pump, Oahu
0.03  Kamalo, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.18  Hana AP, Maui
0.77  Honokaa, Big Island

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

21  Port Allen, Kauai

27  Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu
25  Molokai
30  Lanai
31  Kahoolawe
27  Kapalua, Maui
25  Upolu AP, Big Island


Hawaii’s MountainsHere’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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The satellite imagery above shows high cirrus
clouds moving northeast…which will filter  our
sunshine…and give good color at sunrise and
sunsets through mid-week


Light trade winds with afternoon upcountry
clouds and showers here and there, along with
some windward showers locally…mostly during
the night and early morning hours ~~~ our winds
will turn very light early next week


September Full Moon



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The generally light trade winds will remain active this week…although could fade away later this weekend 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 near 1022 millibar high pressure system to the northeast. At the same time, there’s low pressure troughs not far to the northeast of Hawaii. Meanwhile, there’s many low pressure systems to the north and northwest. The light to sometimes moderately strong trade winds will remain in place well into the future.

Satellite imagery shows partly cloudy skies over the islands…with high cirrus clouds being carried over us from the southwest. Looking at this larger looping satellite image, it shows a large area of thunderstorms well offshore to the southwest of Hawaii…with the cirrus tops being transported over our area. These high clouds will dim and filter our Hawaiian sunshine, and bring nice colorful sunrise and sunset colors. The light winds over our region will prompt afternoon clouds and some showers over our leeward upcountry slopes in places. The trade winds, despite being on the light side, will bring the windward sides a few incoming showers too.  Here’s the looping radar, showing some showers moving across our island chain, which will continue in an off and on manner. I’ll be back many times during the day with more updates on all of the above and below, I hope you have a great Monday wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.


World-wide tropical cyclone activity:


Atlantic Ocean:
There are no active tropical cyclones

 

1.)  A broad area of low pressure located a few hundred miles south of
the Cape Verde Islands continues to produce disorganized showers and
thunderstorms.  Environmental conditions are forecast to be
conducive for gradual development of this disturbance during the
next several days while it moves west-northwestward at about 15 mph.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...30 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent 


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.)  An area of low pressure located a couple of hundred miles south of Acapulco, Mexico has changed little in organization overnight. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development, and the low is likely to become a tropical depression in the next couple of days while it moves slowly northwestward just off the southwestern coast of Mexico.


* Formation chance through 48 hours…high…60 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…high…80 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


1.) 
A surface trough about 600 miles south of Honolulu Hawaii produced pulsing showers and thunderstorms. As this disturbance moves toward the west at 5 to 10 mph during the next couple of days, environmental conditions are forecast to support gradual development.


* Formation chance through 48 hours, low, near 10 percent.


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


Northwest Pacific Ocean:
Tropical Storm 13W (Fengshen) is dissipating in the northeast Pacific, located about 370 nautical miles east of Yokosuka, Japan…with sustained winds of near 58 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:  Dairy – the case for greener, healthier cows With supermarket milk cheaper than spring water, it’s time to rethink the modern dairy industry. It’s not just the milk that’s become a throwaway product – the high-octane Holstein cows that produce it are also in the knackers yard after just two or three lactations, the living waste of a loss-making, environment-trashing industry.


Milk, a precious resource in many parts of the world, has become a throwaway commodity in wealthy countries. For example, in the UK, an estimated 4.2m tons of foodstuffs wasted per year are wasted, of which milk is in the top three.


In 2012, the country disposed of 420,000 tons of avoidable dairy and egg waste, costing £780m. Perhaps that’s no surprise as supermarkets retail milk for as little as 44p per litre. Bottled water can be two to three times the price.


Such extreme market forces lead to vanishing profit margins, so the dairy industry has had to become super-efficient: fewer, larger herds typically with several hundred, high-yielding Holstein cows capable of producing 10,000 liters per annual lactation cycle, milked by a single dairyman.


These remarkable cattle are the result of highly selective breeding over many generations using a very small pool of elite bulls capable of producing over a million offspring by artificial insemination.


The wonders of modern technology?


A marvelous exemplar of sustainable intensification and food security though application of modern science and technology … perhaps?


From another perspective, the industry has boxed itself into a tight and uncomfortable corner. Modern Holstein dairy cows only last for two to three lactations, rather than the five to eight (or more) of more traditional systems.


These animals carry a heavy burden of nutritional and metabolic diseases and poor fertility, often with adverse consequences for welfare that require routine treatment with antibiotics and hormones – all justifiably of concern to the consumer.


An average of 37% of Holstein cattle suffer from painful lameness, significantly more so than other breeds.


The Holstein cow is arguably the world’s least fertile farm animal. Around 60% require hormonal treatments for successful pregnancy, an obvious prerequisite to the annual calving and lactation cycle.


These treatments may not be harmful to consumers, but routine use of hormones for growth promotion in farm animals was banned in the EU in 1988, and consumers are ill-informed about the risks involved.