Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Friday…along with the minimums Friday:
84 – 75 Lihue, Kauai
88 – 75 Honolulu, Oahu
86 – 74 Molokai
88 – 74 Kahului, Maui
86 – 73 Kailua Kona
85 – 69 Hilo, Hawaii
Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands, as of Friday evening:
0.20 Kilohana, Kauai
0.65 Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu
0.30 Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00 Lanai
0.00 Kahoolawe
0.82 Wailuku, Maui
0.46 Kawainui Stream, Big Island
The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph)…as of Friday evening:
20 Poipu, Kauai – NE
25 Kuaokala, Oahu – NE
24 Molokai – NE
28 Lanai – NE
35 Kahoolawe – NE
33 Kahului AP, Maui – NE
31 South Point, Big Island – NW
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
Low pressure systems with a cold front north of the islands…
thunderstorms in the deeper tropics to our south
Low clouds being carried our way on the trade wind flow…
high cirrus southeast of the Big Island –
Looping version
Showers are falling mostly along the windward sides and over
the nearby ocean – here’s the looping radar image
~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~
Moderately strong trade winds will continue…losing some strength this weekend into next week. 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 moderately strong high pressure systems to the northwest and northeast of the state. At the same time, there’s a low pressure system well to the northeast, with its associated cold front evident to the north of the islands. We should see moderately strong trade winds continuing tonight. As we push into the weekend and early next week, our trades will falter, with onshore daytime sea breezes, and offshore flowing land breezes during the nights. This unusual weather situation, caused by the close proximity of the cold front to the north, should be fairly short-lived however. Climatology would strongly suggest rebounding trade winds by the middle of next week or sooner…becoming rather strong and gusty thereafter.
As the trade winds weaken…we’ll begin to see some additional showers popping up over the islands during the afternoon hours. The windward sides will still see a few showers too, although not all that many are expected. There will continue to be some interior showers during the afternoon hours too…especially on the larger islands. As the trades falter this weekend into early next week, we’ll see a convective weather pattern taking over. This would show up as afternoon upcountry clouds leading to localized showers, clearing back during the nights for the most part. As the trade winds rebound later next week, we’ll see returning off and on passing showers along our windward sides. I’ll return 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.
Here on Maui…it’s 530am Friday morning, with mostly clear to partly cloudy conditions, although with lots of low clouds banked up against our windward sides…dropping showers. The air temperature here in Kula, at my upcountry weather tower, was 54.1 degrees, while it was 75 down at the Kahului airport, 73 out in Hana…and 50 up at the summit of the Haleakala Crater at near the same time.
– We’re into the middle of the afternoon now, and clouds have collected around the mountains as usual, leaving most of our beaches generally clear and sunny. / Looking down into the central valley at 345pm, I can see that it’s partly sunny, although what else that catches my eye is what looks like quite a bit of haze too.
– It’s now into the early evening hours, and there are still clear to partly cloudy skies overlying the island. The trade winds, which are expected to calm down some going forward…are still with us as we head into the night.
World-wide tropical cyclone activity:
>>> Atlantic Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones
>>> Caribbean Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones
>>> Gulf of Mexico: There are no active tropical cyclones
Here’s a satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean
Here’s a satellite image of the Caribbean Sea…and the Gulf of Mexico
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days over the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea or Atlantic Ocean
Here’s the link to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)
>>> Eastern Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones
1.) A broad area of low pressure located about 1400 miles east-southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Some slow development of this disturbance is possible during the next couple of days before upper-level winds become unfavorable for tropical cyclone formation. This system is expected to move west-northwestward into the Central Pacific Hurricane Center’s area of responsibility later today or on Sunday.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…20 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…20 percent
Here’s a wide satellite image that covers the entire area between Mexico, out through the central Pacific…to the International Dateline.
No tropical cyclones are expected through the next five days
Here’s the link to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)
>>> Central Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones
1.) An area of thunderstorms located about 1200 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawaii has shown some organization and has increased in coverage over the past several hours. Additional development will remain possible during the next couple of days as it drifts toward the west-northwest
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…20 percent
Here’s a satellite image with this area marked with an X
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: Nepal deals with climate change – On 25 April, Nepal was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. But as well as quakes, the country is also vulnerable to climate change, a combination that makes it harder to build resilience and risk preparedness.
TAs mean temperatures rise in South Asia, the monsoon season has changed, leading to more-erratic rainfall and increasing the risk of floods and landslides that can claim lives and wreck food production.
One way of adapting to climate change and protecting local economies is to help people become ‘climate smart’. People in ‘climate smart villages’ are trained to adopt organic farming and integrate low-tech and modern technologies.
The smart villages have been developed as part of the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Program, a partnership between the Nepal-based International Center for Integrated Mountain Development and two Norwegian organizations: CICERO (the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo) and GRID-Arendal, a foundation that collaborates with the UN Environment Program.
No one in the pilot villages in the Kathmandu Valley — an area badly affected by the earthquake — was injured or killed. But almost half the households were harmed in some way: houses, cattle sheds and equipment were damaged, and farm plots and water collection ponds were destroyed. But the disaster has not drastically affected the project, and the effort to build a climate-resilient Nepal will continue.
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