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

86 – 72  Lihue, Kauai
87 – 73  Honolulu, Oahu
8969  Molokai
94 – 70  Kahului, Maui
broke the 92 record for Sunday…set back in 1951
88 – 76  Kailua Kona
88 – 71  Hilo, Hawaii

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

0.59  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
0.41  Pupukea Road, Oahu
0.01  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.19  Pukalani, Maui
0.55  Kapapala Ranch, Big Island

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

12  Waimea Heights, Kauai – SW
17  Kahuku,
Oahu – NE
25  Molokai – ENE
24  Lanai – NE

29  Kahoolawe – NE
27  Kahului AP, Maui – NE

25  Puu Mali, Big Island – NE

Hawaii’s MountainsHere’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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We see an upper level low pressure system well to our
northwest, former tropical depression Enrique
to our northeast –
more information below

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We see thunderstorms well offshore to the
south of the islandsLooping version


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Clear to partly cloudy, a few towering cumulus
clouds over the islands
Looping version


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A few showers – looping radar image

High Surf Advisory…large surf along our south
and west shores –
through Tuesday morning


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Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~



The trade winds will remain softer than normal Monday into Tuesday. 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 very large, near 1033 millibar high pressure system to the north of the state. At the same time, we have a small trough of low pressure moving by to the north…which is helping to keep the trades on the lighter side of normal. The trade winds are expected to remain weaker into the first day or two of the new week ahead, providing hot and muggy weather…especially near sea level. The trades should return to more normal levels later Tuesday onwards.

As the winds have relaxed, we’ve shifted into a modified convective weather pattern, with afternoon clouds collecting over and around the mountains with upcountry showers. The lighter winds and higher humidity levels, will keep a sultry reality in place into Tuesday. A large south swell continues to pound our leeward beaches, keeping warning level surf active…be careful! Finally, both the NAVGEM and the GFS models want to bring tropical systems, or at least moisture, up into the areas east and south of the Hawaiian Islands late next weekend into early the following week…stay tuned. I’ll be back with more updates on all of the above and below, I hope you have a great Sunday night wherever you’re spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Here on Maui…It’s 550am Sunday morning, skies are mostly clear.
The air temperature here in Kula, at my upcountry weather tower was 56.9 degrees, while it was 71 down at the Kahului airport, 75 out in Hana, and 46 degrees up at the summit of the Haleakala Crater at about the same time. / It’s now 1045am, and I just got back from having breakfast with my friend’s Jeff and Cindy, down at the French restaurant just down the mountain from here, called La Provence. It was totally sunny earlier, although clouds are rapidly forming overhead, which may lead to afternoon showers.

It’s 3pm under very cloudy skies here in Kula, with rain about 3 seconds away, or so it seems. I can smell the rain already, and sure enough, there are a few big drops falling now. Meanwhile, down at the beaches in all directions, it’s totally sunny and hot!

– 620pm here on Maui, with clear to partly cloudy skies, and a few cloudy areas. It was another hot day, especially near sea level, with cooler temperatures with added elevation. Here in Kula, the temperature rose up into the middle to upper 70’s under mostly cloudy skies. I was surprised we got only a few sprinkles, which was certainly different than Saturday’s showery episode.

Friday Evening Film: We’ll, as has been the case for a few weeks now, there are several good looking films playing in our local theaters here in Maui. My friend Jeff and I were looking at three that would have been good enough to see, and we came up with one that has been getting good reviews. It’s called Trainwreck, starring Amy Schumer, Bill Harder, Colin Quinn, Brie Larson, Mike Birbiglia, Devin Fabry, Marisa Tomei, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Bayer…among many others.

The synopsis: since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s (Schumer) head by her rascal of a dad (Colin Quinn) that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo-enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment-but in actuality, she’s kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she’s writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners (Bill Hader), Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like her, might be on to something.

Jeff and I both thought it was a good film, a cute and often funny film. Much of the comedy was of a rather crude nature, which surprised me, and didn’t necessarily come out by watching the trailer. There were some touching scenes, and even some sophistication around the edges, although that certainly wasn’t what carried the film by any means. It was a romantic comedy, and the truth was spoken throughout, which was what gave the film its funny edge in my opinion. This isn’t the last we’ll be hearing about up and coming…Amy Schumer! As for a grade, Jeff gave it a B+, while I gave it a toned down strong B rating. If you’re interested, here’s the trailer.

Saturday Evening Film: My friend Jeff invited me up to his place for dinner, and then to see a film that he had picked out on NetFlix. This film is called Hector and the Search for Happiness, starring Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Toni Collette, and Jean Reno…among others. The synopsis: Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.  

This film took me by surprise, and was completely entertaining! It was not only funny, it was rather thought provoking as well. There wasn’t an ounce of preachiness, and Hector played his part very well indeed. It was such a sweet film, as Hector found that his problems…were of his own making along the way. It wasn’t all fun and games however, as at least one part of the film was seriously intense, where he landed in a hard core jail in Africa. Speaking of foreign countries, this doctor globe trots around to many other countries as well, in his quest to find out what happiness is. I must admit that both Jeff and I made many remarks while watching the film, about how attractive Rosamund Pike was! As for grades, I don’t remember exactly what Jeff said afterwards, although I think we both were very happy to have seen the film, something around B+ is in order. At any rate, here’s the trailer if you’re interested in taking a peek. 


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 low pressure system located about 1050 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula continues to produce a large area of cloudiness and showers. Environmental conditions are expected to be somewhat conducive for a tropical depression to form around mid-week while the low moves west-northwestward at 15 mph.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…near 50 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…high…70 percent

2.)   Showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located several hundred miles south of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula have changed little overnight. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for slow development while the disturbance moves generally westward this week.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…medium…40 percent

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
: There are no active tropical cyclones

Here’s a link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC)

>>>
Northwest Pacific Ocean:
There are no active tropical cyclones


>>>
South Pacific OceanThere 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: Lake Tahoe’s deep blue color explained Lake Tahoe’s iconic blueness is more strongly related to the lake’s algal concentration than to its clarity, according to research in “Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2015,” released today by the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) of the University of California, Davis. The lower the algal concentration, the bluer the lake.

Data from a research buoy in the lake, owned and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, enabled Shohei Watanabe, a postdoctoral researcher at TERC, to create a Blueness Index that quantified Lake Tahoe’s color for the first time.

The assumption that lake clarity is tied to blueness has driven advocacy and management efforts in the Lake Tahoe Basin for decades. But Watanabe’s research showed that at times of the year when the lake’s clarity increases, its blueness decreases, and vice versa.

Watanabe combined the blueness measurements with data on clarity. Clarity is measured by observing the depth at which a dinner-plate-sized white disk remains visible when lowered into the water. He was surprised to find that blueness and clarity did not correspond. In fact, they varied in opposite directions.

This is due to seasonal interplay among sediment, algae and nutrients in the lake. Clarity is controlled by sediment. Blueness is controlled by algal concentration, which in turn is controlled by the level of nutrients available to the algae.

The JPL buoy used in the study is one of four buoys established by NASA with support from TERC to calibrate and validate measurements taken by satellites flying overhead. “This particular buoy has instruments beneath the water looking up and an instrument on the buoy looking down,” said JPL’s Simon Hook, who collaborated with Watanabe during his research. “The combination of instruments in and above the water was used in this study to look at how light is being scattered and attenuated. That tells you something about both the color and the clarity of the lake.”

The finding is good news, according to Geoffrey Schladow, director of TERC and a civil engineering professor at UC Davis. “It shows that we better understand how Lake Tahoe works, and it reinforces the importance of controlling nutrient inputs to the lake, whether from the forest, the surrounding lawns or even from the air. It’s particularly encouraging that blueness has been increasing over the last three years.”