Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Sunday…along with the minimum temperatures Sunday:

78 – 66  Lihue, Kauai
83 – 63  Honolulu, Oahu
82 – 55  Molokai AP
84 – 58  Kahului, Maui
83 – 69  Kailua Kona
81 – 63  Hilo, Hawaii

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

0.18  Princeville AP, Kauai
0.02  Waiawa, Oahu
0.00  Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.00  Maui
0.34  Saddle Quarry, Big Island


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


18  Port Allen, Kauai
15  Waianae Valley, Oahu
18  Molokai
23  Lanai
32  Kahoolawe
23  Kapalua, Maui
27  Kealakomo, 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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Our trade winds will turn lighter…with hardly any showers

We’ll find much lighter winds Monday and Tuesday, with
chilly mornings…and spotty afternoon upcountry showers

Gusty trade winds will return with their associated windward
showers in the wake of a weak cold front Wednesday…followed
by another cold front with its showers next weekend…with
more gusty trade winds filling in behind that front

High Surf Advisory…north and west shores of Kauai, Oahu
and Molokai / north shores of Maui



 



~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~







The trade winds will give way to much lighter winds…as we move through Monday and Tuesday. 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 high pressure systems in the area far east…and a short distance to the northwest. At the same time, we have low pressure systems far to the northeast, north and northwest of the state. The trade winds will continue to pass over the islands…although losing strength now. These lighter trade winds will then give way to much lighter breezes Monday for a couple of days. The trade winds will return around Wednesday, becoming quite strong…continuing for several days. Lighter trades will arrive again next Friday, with stronger trade winds arriving in the wake of a cold front next weekend.
 
Skies remain mostly clear statewide.  Here’s the looping radar image shows unusually cloud free skies at the time of this writing. The windward sides may see a couple of very limited showers…as we’ll continue moving through a dry period. In sum: light and variable winds taking over…with nice weather prevailing generally. We’ll find much lighter winds Monday and Tuesday, with cool mornings, and spotty afternoon upcountry showers. We may see a cold front bring a few showers to our islands Wednesday, and then again by next weekend…stay tuned. I’ll be back with updates on all of the above, I hope you have a great Sunday night wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Friday Evening Film: As usual, there were several films that looked good, and were drawing me into the theater, enough in fact that I was having a little difficulty deciding which to see. I talked to my neighbor Jeff, and another lady friend of ours, and we came up with one called Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Michael Papajohn and Riz Ahmed…among many others. The synopsis: Nightcrawlers is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and  cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own story.

 The critics are giving this film a top notch 95% rating, while the viewers are coming in a little lower at 87%. As the film ended, everyone in our group seemed to let out a little gasp, perhaps with relief that this intense film was over? Personally, I loved the film, and immediately, although a little under my breath perhaps, gave a B+. Our lady friend was a little disgusted, and spat out a C-, while Jeff was barely able to give it a B-. We all went out for a beer afterwards, and as we let the film sink in and talked it over, the grades gradually rose a little. I was almost ready to lift my rating to A-, while others finally came up more towards a soft B grade. This film is not a light weight piece of work, full of crime scenes and car crashes…painting a pretty grim picture of modern society. As one critic put it: “Glides out of the darkness and seizes you by the throat.” I liked every part of it, keeping me on the edge of my seat throughout, just where I like to be while watching a hard core film like this. This trailer is not for everyone, its got a couple of rather gnarly parts, although it’s not all that bad…it certainly gives you an inside peek at the flavor of this film.
 

World-wide tropical cyclone activity:



>>> Atlantic Ocean: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.



Here’s a satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean 

>>> Caribbean Sea: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.



>>> Gulf of Mexico:  The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.





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



>>> Eastern Pacific: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 North Pacific hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.



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



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



>>> Central Pacific:  The central north Pacific hurricane season has officially ended. Routine issuance of the tropical weather outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, special tropical weather outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.





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



>>> Northwest Pacific Ocean: Tropical storm 22W (Hagupit) remains active, moving through the Philippine Islands…then out into the South China Sea. Here’s a JTWC graphical track map…along with a NOAA satellite image. 



  >>> 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:  Study says today’s carbon emissions take 10 years to reach maximum effect – The climate warming caused by a single carbon emission takes only about 10 years to reach its maximum effect. This is important because it refutes the common misconception that today’s emissions won’t be felt for decades and that they are a problem for future generations.





 For the first time, a study conducted by Carnegie’s Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira has evaluated how long it takes to feel the maximum warming effect caused by a single carbon emission. Their work is published in Environmental Research Letters.



“A lot of climate scientists have intuition about how long it takes to feel the warming from a particular emission of carbon dioxide,” Ricke said. “But that intuition might be a little bit out of sync with our best estimates from today’s climate and carbon cycle models.”



Many climate model simulations focus on the amount of warming caused by emissions sustained over decades or centuries, but the timing of temperature increases caused by particular emission has been largely overlooked. Ricke and Caldeira sought to correct that by combining the results from two large modeling studies one about the way carbon emissions interact with the global carbon cycle and one about the effect of carbon on the Earth’s climate used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.



They found that actions taken to avoid emissions today would be felt within the lifetimes of the people who acted, not just by future generations.



“CO2 emissions cause global temperatures to increase for about a decade, but then temperatures stay high for a long time,” Caldeira said. “This means if we avoid an emission, we avoid heating that would otherwise occur this decade. This will benefit us and not just our grandchildren. This realization could help break the political logjam over policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”



The authors note, however, that while the warming caused by a single emission reaches a maximum quickly, damage caused by this warming can play out over longer periods, including effects of sea level rise and harm to ecosystems caused by sustained warming.