Hawaiian Islands Weather details & Aloha Paragraphs / March 31 – April 1, 2015

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

75 – 68  Lihue, Kauai
78 – 65  Honolulu, Oahu
87 – 63  Kahului, Maui
84 – 74  Kailua Kona
84 – 68  Hilo, Hawaii

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

4.44  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
2.57  Poamoho RG 1, Oahu
0.10  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.01  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.30  Kaupo Gap, Maui
0.44  Saddle Quarry, Big Island

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

14  Poipu, Kauai – SSW
12  Makua Range – NW
13  Molokai – NNE
20  Lanai – NW
24  Kahoolawe – NE
14  Hana, Maui – SE
25  Upolu AP, Big Island – NE

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



An area of showers moving by to the northeast of Hawaii


Clearing skies

Showers are becoming limited

Here’s the looping radar image for the
Hawaiian Islands

~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~

The Mauna Kea Summit…on the Big Island of Hawaii

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

The trade winds will increasing again Wednesday through the weekend. 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 to the northeast of the state, moving northeast…with associated ridges of high pressure. At the same time, we have surface troughs of low pressure located to the near Kauai, and the south of the Big Island. The trade winds will be picking up again Wednesday through the weekend.

Some localized showers, especially around Oahu…then drier into Wednesday. As the trade winds strengthen Wednesday, we’ll see the return of off and on showers falling along our windward sides through the end of this work week…with a few stretching over into the leeward sides locally. At the current time, it looks like more windward showers Wednesday through Friday, and likely through the weekend into early next week.  I’ll be back with more updates on all of the above, I hope you have a great Tuesday night wherever you’re spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Here on Maui: The skies are clear to partly cloudy early this Tuesday morning…with a few high cirrus clouds lighting up a soft pink color. The low temperature was 52 degrees here at my Kula weather tower at 545am, while it was 65 degrees down at the Kahului airport, 72 at the Hana airport, and 43 degrees atop the Haleakala Crater at the same time. The warmest low temperature around the state was 76 degrees at Kailua Kona on the Big Island.

~~~ It’s now the middle of the afternoon here on Maui, at 250pm, under clear to partly cloudy skies. Looking out across the island towards the West Maui Mountains, from here in Kula, I see quite a few rather tall clouds, with dark bases…which are dropping some showers in some locations. 

~~~ We’re into the early evening hours at 605pm, under clear to partly cloudy skies, with some cloudy areas over and around the mountains. Here in Kula late in the afternoon, there were a few very light drops falling from the sky, although they didn’t amount to anything measurable. I expect the clouds at sunset to evaporate during the night, making way for clear skies in the morning.

>>> 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: Super Typhoon 04W (Maysak) remains active in the northwest Pacific, here’s the JTWC graphical track map, along with a satellite image…and what the computer weather models are showing. Here’s a dynamic looping satellite image of this incredibly powerful storm!

>>> 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: Its a fact: animals can predict earthquakes – The Amazon rainforest teems with animal activity throughout the day and night. When animals suddenly withdraw and go silent, however, something unusual is going on. Many believe that this reaction can mean an earthquake is imminent.

Scientists now say they’ve got proof this belief is true. They’ve published their study’s findings in the journal Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.

Researchers set up a series of motion-activated camera traps in Peru’s Yanachanga National Park to observe animal activity at ground level. They filmed rodents and other ground dwellers as they went about their busy forest lives.

In 2011, just weeks before the 7.0 magnitude Contamana earthquake hit this area, those cameras revealed something amazing. Those animals suddenly dropped out of sight. They packed their bags and headed for the hills, so to speak.

Animal activity began dropping about 23 days before the quake struck. On a normal day, the cameras captured between five and 15 animals moving about. During those 23 days, they captured only five such daily sightings.

Even more astounding — for five of the seven days immediately preceding the earthquake, the cameras picked up absolutely no animal movements of any kind. In an area so rich with animal life, this development clearly meant something important.

“As far as we know, this is the first time that motion-triggered cameras have documented this phenomenon prior to an earthquake,” Dr. Rachel Grant, lecturer in Animal and Environmental Biology at Anglia Ruskin University and the report’s lead author, said in a news release.

“The park was 320km from the epicenter, and I thought, there was not much going to be happening,” Grant told Sky News. “But when I saw the results I was totally shocked. It was amazing. The analysis showed that just before the earthquake animal activity dropped right down.”

So what was going on? It seems that when the Earth’s surface experiences stressors, electrically charged molecules cause elevated serotonin levels in the bloodstream. This in turn causes animals and humans to experience confusion, agitation, headaches, restlessness and hyperactivity. Animals will naturally depart an area in which they experience this kind of discomfort.