Hawaiian Islands Weather details & Aloha Paragraphs / April 24-25, 2015

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


83 – 73  Lihue, Kauai
80 – 68  Honolulu, Oahu
85 – 64  Molokai AP
90 – 64   Kahului, Maui  (90 tied the record high temperature for this date in history…back in 1984 )
85 – 74   Kona Intl AP, Hawaii
83 – 70   Hilo, Hawaii

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

0.34  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
0.60  Kii, Oahu
0.03  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.15  Kaupo Gap, Maui
0.36  Saddle Quarry, Big Island

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

24  Barking Sands, Kauai – SE
21  Kahuku Trng, Oahu – SE
27  Molokai – E
18  Lanai – NE
35  Kahoolawe – NE
20  Maalaea Bay, Maui – NNW
30  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



A low pressure system northwest…with its associated
cold front approaching Kauai

Clear to partly cloudy skies, locally cloudy…high cirrus
clouds over the Big Island and Maui County

 

Showers are falling over the nearby ocean…
a few spreading onto the islands locally

Here’s the looping radar image for the
Hawaiian Islands

~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~

Small Craft Wind Advisory…windiest coastal and channel
waters around the Big Island and Maui County

 

Lighter winds from the southeast…as a cold front approaches the state from the northwest. 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 large high pressure system located to the northeast of the state, with an associated ridge of high pressure extending southwest from its center…to over the central islands. As a result of these high pressure features, and a low pressure center located to our northwest, with its associated cold front, our winds will come in from the southeast. Southeasterly winds typically bring volcanic haze to many parts of the state. It appears that trade winds will resume early next week, as the cold front, which will enter the state this weekend…dissipates later Monday into next Tuesday. These trade winds will likely last most of next week.

Showers will be carried towards the islands at times…increasing during the weekend. The forecast has some showers falling here and there today, a few of which may become locally heavy. The winds will come in from the southeast ahead of this approaching cold front. This in turn will keep volcanic haze (vog) over some parts of the state. We’ll turn wetter through the weekend, as a cold front moves across the state. It will reach Kauai later Saturday, Oahu early Sunday, and then reach Maui County and the Big Island Monday. There’s the possibility that some of this frontal precipitation may become locally quite generous. As the trade winds rebound early next week, the windward sides will see shower activity continuing for several days. I’ll be back with more updates on all of the above, I hope you have a great Friday night wherever you’re spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Friday Evening Film: There are lots of good looking films playing now in the Maui theaters in Kahului. I’m going with my post neighbor Jeff, and another lady friend of ours Cindy. This film is called Ex Machina, starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Issac, Sonoya Mizuno, Claire Selby, and Symara Templeman…among many others. The synopsis:  Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test-charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated–and more deceptive–than the two men could have imagined. / I’ll let you know what we thought Saturday morning, and until then, here’s the trailer if you’re interested.

>>> 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:  Putting a value on our Oceans – The ocean’s wealth rivals those of the world’s leading economies, but its resources are rapidly eroding, according to a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report. The analysis, Reviving the Ocean Economy: The Case for Action, conservatively estimates the value of key ocean assets to be at least $24 trillion. If compared to the world’s top 10 economies, the ocean would rank as the seventh largest, with an annual value of goods and services of $2.5 trillion.

The report, produced in association with The Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), combines scientific evidence of environmental degradation with an economic case for urgent conservation action. Using an innovative economic analysis, the ocean’s value is quantified based on assessments of goods and services ranging from fisheries to coastal storm protection, resulting in an overall asset value and an annual dividend output (comparable to a GDP).

“Our oceans are the planet’s natural capital, a ‘factory’ producing an incredible array of goods and services that we all want and need,” said Brad Ack, senior vice president for oceans at WWF. “But every day we are degrading, over-consuming, and polluting this productive asset to a point of ever diminishing returns.”

“Research included in the report shows that at the current rate of ocean warming, coral reefs that provide food, jobs and storm protection to several hundred million people will disappear completely by 2050. More than just warming waters, climate change is inducing increased ocean acidity that if unchecked will take thousands of years for the ocean to repair.

Over-exploitation is another major cause for the ocean’s decline, with 90% of globally-monitored fish stocks either over-exploited or fully exploited. The Pacific bluefin tuna population alone has dropped by 96% from previous levels.

These trends are still reversible however, the report emphasizes. Reviving the Ocean Economy presents an eight-point action plan that could restore ocean resources to their full potential.

Among the most time-critical solutions presented in the report are taking global action on climate change, embedding ocean recovery throughout the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and making good on strong commitments to protect coastal and marine areas.

“The oceans are our global savings account from which we keep making only withdrawals,” said Ack. “To continue this pattern leads to only one place – bankruptcy. It is time for significant reinvestment and protection of this global commons.”