Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Saturday…along with the minimums Saturday:
83 – 74 Lihue, Kauai
80 – 70 Honolulu, Oahu
83 – 63 Molokai AP
86 – 65 Kahului, Maui
85 – 73 Kona Intl AP, Hawaii
82 – 68 Hilo, Hawaii
Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands, as of Saturday evening:
1.13 Waialae, Kauai
0.23 Poamoho RG 1, Oahu
0.11 Molokai AP, Molokai
0.01 Lanai
0.00 Kahoolawe
0.17 Kepuni, Maui
0.27 Pahoa, Big Island
The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph)…as of Saturday evening:
24 Lihue, Kauai – SW
30 Kuaokala, Oahu – SE
13 Molokai – ESE
12 Lanai – SW
12 Kahoolawe – NE
17 Hana, Maui – SE
23 South Point, Big Island – E
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 north…with its
associated cold front moving slowly
into the state
Clear to partly cloudy skies…locally cloudy
Showers are spreading into the islands, thanks to the late
season cold front…a few will be locally quite generous
Here’s the looping radar image for the
Hawaiian Islands
~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~
Winds generally from the southeast and south…as a cold front moves into 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 high pressure system located to the northeast of the state, with an associated ridge of high pressure extending southwest from its center…to near the Big Island. As a result of these high pressure features, and a low pressure center located just to our north, with its associated cold front, our winds will come in from the southeast and south. Southeasterly winds typically bring volcanic haze to many parts of the state, as they are at this time. It appears that trade winds will resume later Monday, as the cold front, as the front dissipates over Maui County. These trade winds will likely last through next Wednesday, if not most of the new week ahead.
Showers will be carried towards the islands at times…increasing ahead of and along a cold front. The forecast has some showers falling here and there, a few of which may become locally heavy. The winds will come in from the southeast and south 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 this weekend into Monday, as a cold front moves across the state. It will reach Kauai later today, Oahu early Sunday, and then stall near Maui County later Sunday or Monday. There’s the possibility that some of this frontal precipitation may become locally quite generous. As the trade winds rebound Monday into Tuesday, 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 Saturday 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.
There ended up being four of us seeing this new film, and we all liked it. Jeff and I gave it an A- grade, while the other two rated it with a B…and B+. This was an edgy film, we could also use the words imaginative, unsettling, and oh so visually stunning. There were convincing moments that had me strongly wondering whether this was a wild daydream, or a clear glimpse into the future. This film portrayed a new kind of intelligence and morality…which used very interesting special effects to develop the story and its characters. This is artificial intelligence at its best, conjuring up thought provoking issues left and right. The film in general was quite slow, although it sped up nicely around the curves so to speak. This was a mind teaser of a film, filled with entertainment galore, ranging between science and philosophy…romance and action in such very cool ways. There was a very interesting hip hop dance scene, which sort of came out of left field, attempting to somehow express the meaning of existence. It was a film that I was very happy to see, and feel comfortable giving it a double thumbs-up to anyone interested in the A.I. experience. If this write-up has you a little interested…here’s the trailer for you.
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: 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.”
Claire Malibu Graham Says:
Mahalo Glenn for a provocative & inspiring essay. I take it very personally, as I have taken global biosphere destruction since 1989, when my Hollywood-royalty/adoptive parents adopted newborn twins, a boy & girl; a tiny 3 pounds each. I was 25, & I could tell our houses, 2 side-by-side houses in the Hollywood Hills were “on fire,” but the patterns of dysfunction raged brighter & louder than the flames. Money was pouring in. Fame was hot. Denial was solid.
The degeneration of life for me personally seemed to mirror the wider scale of soil poisoning, ecosystem devastation, oceanic pollution & exploitation, & scarcity as a religion for humans to be distracted from their true power to love & connect. Babies are born too love, & they are welcomed with trauma. Children are born to learn & grow their capacities for participating in healthy families & communities; they are conditioned away from stability, humility & trust in the riches & beauty of the environment.
Personally, the corrupted condition of the soils, bees, farm animals, human health, our food system, and oceans are the fruit of humanity’s loss of love. Love is rooted in trust, honesty, feelings, & mutual respect.
By focusing on my own healing holistically, I became aware of regenerative patterns in Nature that stand by at the ready for us each to heal & feel & choose love again. In Permaculture Design, which is a design system that invites humans to co-create homes with the resilience & stability of Nature, success is based on mutually beneficial relationships, efficiency of all energy used & creates energy, beauty & Abundance on all levels. The healing of the ocean & the hearts of humanity require regenerative and inviting patterns of cooperation.
The respect for the environment starts in our guts, where an acidic condition wreaks havoc & causes disease.
When we heal our relationship with our own bodies, then we’ll naturally see the ecosystem regenerate. The value of life has gotten temporarily lost in the value placed on numbing life’s gold: pain that redirects hurtful behavior, & love is lost in the pursuit of money, drugs & fame before kindness. I am grateful there is a strong & powerful clan worldwide embracing truth that is Universally true & following Nature’s guidance & wisdom. Regrarians on Facebook offers much insight & hope
The ocean is love. Love will prevail. Pure gold.
The twins are currently drug-addicted, as invited by their flaming dysfunctional homes. Me, I live on Maui, co-creating a 260-acre regenerative design community in Makawao. http://Www.hokunui.com ~mahalo.
Aloha, Claire ~~~ Hi Claire, very nice to hear from you, thanks for your touching response to my Interesting article! It’s also interesting, that I almost got involved in your land project, as I was friends with both Ron Sturtz and Dr. Julie Holmes, who unfortunately, have both passed away. I wish all of you the very best fortune in the development of this large piece of very special land! Aloha, Glenn
peter mac Says:
Aloha Glenn – Welcome home.
Thanks again for another provocative ‘Interesting’.
The essay ‘Putting A Value On Our Oceans’ is clearly written with the best of intentions.
I would like to suggest approaching the issue of biosphere degradation from the opposite direction. That is, that it is the economic system itself that has allowed/promoted the widespread, ongoing exploitation and destruction of our tiny beautiful planet.
Our economic system does not/cannot value clean air, clean water, wholesome food for everyone.
And we, collectively, are often willing to compromise the environment in our urgent need to make money.
The devils bargain.
Or am I delusional? I mean, about this issue.
Aloha ~~~ Hi again Peter, thanks for your welcome back. Delusional, you Peter…I rather doubt that. Money does makes the world go around…doesn’t it? More seriously, there are so many reasons that the planet rotates, revolves around the sun, and is a small part of a much larger universe. Things do seem to be worsening at times, although on the other hand, I do like this life of ours/mine…it’s such fun! Always good to hear from you, Aloha, Glenn