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

84 – 67  Lihue, Kauai
82 – 70  Honolulu, Oahu
79 – 64  Molokai AP
83 – 71  Kahului, Maui
83 – 73  Kailua Kona
88 – 68  Hilo, Hawaii

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

0.69  Kokee, Kauai
1.40  St. Stephens, Oahu
0.26  Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.60  Kahakuloa, Maui
0.23  Pali 2, Big Island


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


24  Mana, Kauai – NW
18  Makua Range, Oahu – NE
10  Molokai – NW
27  Lanai – NNE
20  Kahoolawe – NNE
21  Maalaea Bay, Maui – NNE
24  Kaupulehu, Big Island – SW


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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A cold front has passed over Kauai and Oahu…
and will stall somewhere between Maui and
the Big Island into Saturday

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The cold front’s back edge has now cleared Kauai and Oahu…while the
leading edge has moved into the Alenuihaha Channel towards the
Big Island


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Light to moderately heavy showers, a few will be heavier
around the Big Island…associated with the front –
with somewhat cooler air following in its wake



~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~


High Surf Advisory…for north and west shores of
Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and north shores of Maui,
along with the west shores of the Big Island


Small Craft Advisory…rough seas around waters of
Kauai, Oahu and windward Maui County

Wind Advisory…Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa summits –
west winds of 25-50 mph…gusts over 55 mph


Winds becoming north and northeast…then easterly by Sunday. 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 high pressure system far to the northeast, with a second cell to the west of Hawaii. At the same time, we have a whole host of low pressure systems to the north, with a cold front over the ocean…pushing through the islands now. Our winds will shift to the north and northeast to east during the weekend…perhaps continuing through the first half of next week. It’s unclear what the winds will do thereafter, with the trade possibly continuing, or giving way to lighter breezes…stay tuned.

Rainfall from a cold front moved across Kauai and Oahu, although is weakening…as it moved across Maui County to the Big Island. Here’s the looping radar image showing rain showers being carried into the state by the southwesterly winds…associated with the cold front. Kauai and Oahu has seen the front pass through, while its slowing down around Maui County…and then will stall somewhere towards the Big Island into Saturday. Showers in the wake of the cold front will keep the windward sides of both Maui and the Big Island somewhat showery at times through the weekend. We’ll have yet another cold front pushing in our direction early in the new week ahead, although it will likely stall before reaching Kauai. Looking further ahead, the trade will continue through next Wednesday or so, bringing some windward biased showers our way. The models, or at least some of them, suggest that we may see a further increase in windward showers later next week…stay tuned. I’ll be back with more information on all of the above, I hope you have a great Friday night wherever you’re spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Here in Kula, Maui: It’s still too dark to see the sky, although the winds are generally light from the southwest, with a low temperature of 55 degrees here at my weather tower, at 550am on this Friday morning. It was 73 degrees down at the Kahului airport near the ocean…with 39 degrees atop the Haleakala Crater at the same time. The summit of the Big Island was a colder 33 degrees atop Mauna Kea. The warmest temperature around the state was 75 degrees at the Hilo AP on the Big Island / Now a little later at 815am, it has turned cloudy over my weather tower here in Kula. It was clear just a little while ago, although the light kona wind flow has carried moisture upslope here, bringing these clouds overhead no, along with some light mist. The air temperature has risen to 60.3 degrees, with near light winds at the moment…before I go out for my morning walk. / I got a little misted on my walk, although nothing serious. It’s still cloudy here at 945am, although I can see down into the central valley, where it looks mostly sunny in contrast.

~~~ It’s now mid-afternoon, and clouds are lowering and getting darker…along with some fog showing up in the tops of tall trees around here. The north breezes, which are cooler than the recent kona winds, are now blowing through the cold front…and are here ahead of the rain band itself. Speaking of which, it looks to me like the leading edge is still a little ways to the northwest of Maui. Molokai and Lanai are both under showery clouds already. It’s just a matter of time before the clouds will lower even further, fog will engulf us, and rain will begin falling shortly thereafter. I have to say I love these weather changes that occur when a cold front moves through! / It’s late afternoon now, under thick fog, and increasingly heavy mist and drizzle. The air temperature has cooled to 64 degrees…now that we have a chilly north breeze over us.

~~~ We’re into the early evening hours now, with cloudy and foggy skies, and rain falling. The winds are very light, although very recently were chilly from the north. The air temperature has fallen further into the low 60’s. At the same time it was a cool 70 degrees down at the Kahului airport, with light rain falling. Actually, it was lightly raining in both Kapalua and Hana too, with 68 and 70 degree readings respectively.


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: There are no active tropical cyclones


 >>> 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: Going Tubeless – Recently one of the country’s most popular paper goods suppliers, Scott Products, did away with the cardboard inner tube inside of its toilet paper rolls and is now going tubeless. Here’s why that’s good news for the environment.


Each year over 17 billion toilet paper tubes are thrown away, and most end up in landfills. To put that in perspective, this amount of waste is enough to fill the Empire State Building…twice! And did you know that in New York City alone, 14,000 toilet paper inner tubes are thrown away every 15 minutes? In fact, just the tubes from toilet paper rolls account for millions of pounds of waste each year.


Since first putting out toilet paper in the 1980s, Scott Products has become the top supplier. Therefore, the company’s move to go tubeless carries even more environmental significance because it sets a precedent. What if every toilet paper manufacturer ditched the inner tube? Imagining the benefits of that is exciting for all of us environmental activists out there.


What if we were to expand on this strategy beyond just toilet paper? Many other products contain a wasteful component that can be eliminated in order to help save our planet. What if paper towel companies did this as well? Each year billions of paper towel tubes end up biodegrading in landfills, but they don’t need to be there.


If the average American uses about 741 pounds of paper per year, with 55 pounds of that being from toilet and towel paper, going cardboard tubeless could mean a huge waste-reduction and could help chip away at the spread of trash dumps across the country and world. If both the toilet paper and paper towel inner rolls were dispensed with, this could equate to eliminating a significant portion of the 55 pounds of waste, per person, per year, that we generate in just this one country alone.


The United States has an average of 319 million people in its population. While the paper waste does not seem like a prodigious figure for one individual per year, when you multiply that by almost half-a-billion people, that is a colossal amount of waste just from these two products alone. When you look at it like this, taking away the tube seems like a no-brainer. It is not a perfect solution to all of our environmental waste problems, but it is certainly a start.