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

84 – 78  Lihue, Kauai
91 – 78  Honolulu, Oahu – the record for Monday was 93…set back in 1984
85 77  Molokai
83 – 78  Kahului AP, Maui

89 – 79  Kailua Kona
89 – 73  Hilo, Hawaii

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

3.86  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
1.09  Makaha Stream, Oahu
0.75  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.94  Kahoolawe
0.31  Ulupalakua, Maui
1.86  Pohakuloa Kipuka Alala, Big Island

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

23  Lihue, Kauai – NE
29  Kuaokala,
Oahu – N
23  Molokai – N
27  Lanai – NE

27  Kahoolawe – NNE
22  Maalaea Bay, Maui – NNE

24  Hilo AP, Big Island – NNE

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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Hurricane 12E (Ignacio) remains active over the ocean to the
northeast of Hawaii, with Hurricane Jimena following
further behind to the east-southeast…while Tropical
Depression 13E remains active further towards Mexico /
and Typhoon Kilo is located far to the west of Hawaii

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Wind shear is disrupting Hurricane
Ignacio…gradually
taking its toll on the strength of this system

 

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Hurricane 12E (Ignacio)
…will
move by offshore to the
north and northeast of Hawaii as a Hurricane (H )

 

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Hurricane Ignacio encountering strong wind shear
and will continue to weaken going forward

 

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Hurricane Ignacio still looks impressive, as does Hurricane
Jimena…which are pretty close together! Typhoon Kilo
is far to the west of Hawaii, now in the western Pacific

Here’s a wind profile…so we can keep an eye on
these hurricanes


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Hurricane Ignacio to the northeast…with its associated
clouds staying away from us for the most part


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There are showers around…some heavy over the ocean
looping radar image

 

Hurricane Warning…offshore waters beyond 40 miles

High Surf Warning…east shores of all the islands

Small Craft Advisory…Big Island windward and southeast
waters, northwest Kauai waters, windward waters, Oahu
windward waters, and the Kaiwi Channel, Pailolo Channel,
Maui County windward waters…and Alenuihaha Channel

 

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Light to moderate northerly breezes, locally gusty, then turning lighter from the south…as Ignacio moves by to our north and northeast. Here’s the latest weather map, showing the Hawaiian Islands, and the rest of the North Pacific Ocean, along with a wind profiler of the central Pacific. We find a large moderately strong high pressure system far to the north of the state. At the same time we see hurricanes far to our west, much closer to our east-northeast, and further to the east-southeast. Hurricane…and then Tropical Storm Ignacio will move by offshore to the north and northeast of the islands this week. Our winds will be light to moderately strong northerlies…for a little while longer.  Then after briefly becoming light and variable Tuesday, will be characterized by unusual southerly breezes through the rest of the week…keeping extremely sultry conditions in place.

The islands will have unusual weather conditions coming up…as Ignacio migrates by our area. We’ll see some windward showers, and elsewhere at times too…some locally heavy with a thunderstorm. As Ignacio slides by, conditions will turn locally showery, still possibly heavy, although rather spotty in nature…rather than widespread. As Ignacio moves further away during the second half of this week, we could see showers increasing some, as tropical moisture associated with Ignacio may linger in our island vicinity. As the winds will be quite light during this time, we may see heavy downpours over the interior sections of the islands during the afternoon and early evening hours…triggered by daytime heating of the islands.

Hurricane 12E (Ignacio) is moving towards the northwest…and is passing by Hawaii over the offshore waters. As of the latest CPHC advisory, the closest point of approach, from the center of Ignacio to Hilo, Hawaii will be 214 miles, 208 miles from Haleakala here on Maui, 219 miles from Kaneohe, Oahu, and finally 248 miles offshore from Lihue, Kauai. Here’s a satellite image, and the CPHC graphical track map, and what the computer models are showing. Based on the most recent advisory, Hurricane Ignacio remains at category 2 strength…with 98 mph sustained winds. Going forward from here, it looks like we’ll find a gradually weakening hurricane, slipping down to a tropical storm well offshore to the north of Kauai.  

Large swells from hurricane Ignacio will affect the islands during the next couple of days, with reinforcing swells from distant hurricane Jimena coming in during the rest of the week. The largest swells will remain aimed at the Big Island and east Maui into tonight, where a high surf warning remains in effect. The other islands had been mostly blocked from the east-southeast swell of Ignacio, but the system moved into the swell window of these islands last night. As a result, expect building surf for these islands into Tuesday, and the high surf warning has been expanded to cover east facing shores of most islands. Even with swell energy from Ignacio fading on Wednesday, east shore surf will remain elevated, possibly to warning levels, through at least the weekend due to easterly swell from hurricane Jimena.

Meanwhile, Hurricane 13E (Jimena) remains active in the eastern Pacific. Jimena continues to be a major category 4 hurricane at the moment. This hurricane will come into our central Pacific, and as it stands at the moment, as a major category 3 tropical cyclone (111-129 mph)…Tuesday. Here’s a satellite image, and the NHC graphical track map, and what the computer models are showing. This is a very strong hurricane in the eastern Pacific, although it will have reached its peak before coming over into our central Pacific…and will be gradually losing power as it heads west-northwestward and then northwestward. There’s a good chance that hurricane Jemina will stay away from our area…well to the east and northeast of the state later this weekend into early next week.

Here on MauiIt’s 550am Monday morning, and it’s mostly clear to partly cloudy, although clouds and some showers remain active over our windward coasts and slopes this morning.
Now that its a little lighter,  I can see towering cumulus clouds offshore to the north, with showers falling in several directions…along with a couple of lovely rainbows at sunrise! A light shower just began falling here in Kula, lit up by the rising sun…what a great way to start our day and the new week! The towering cumulus are good indicators of a shower prone atmosphere by the way. / Now at 845am, skies are mostly sunny, as a very nice day here on Maui! / It’s now late in the morning, and skies are mostly clear and sunny, with refreshing trade wind breezes blowing.

It’s early afternoon, and here in Kula, it’s getting windy…as the winds are coming in now from the north ahead of hurricane Ignacio. These winds aren’t at all directly associated with the hurricane, although are being channeled in from the north now…by its far away presence. It’s way windier than normal, although not to the point where its blowing stuff around though. Definitely is catching my attention though! Glancing over the horizon in several directions here on Maui, I see several distinct towering cumulus, rather small in size…what I typically call turrets. At the same time, now at 135pm, the strong winds are blowing some mist over into my area as well…things are getting a little exciting! / Now at 415pm, the winds have calmed down some, and there are several cumulonimbus clouds (thunderstorms) roaming around our skies late this afternoon. One over the West Maui Mountains, and another offshore from Wailuku town…impressive!

Well, the thunderstorms are gone, although the refreshing and slightly cool northerly breezes are trying to help take the edge off the very muggy conditions this evening. Unfortunately, these unusual northerlies, will give way to uncommon southerlies, which will be incredibly warm and sultry…as hurricane Ignacio passes by offshore. I forgot to mention this afternoon, that we had a very light little shower, and I can see a rainbow not far away, in the direction of the wind flow…so we might have another light shower before sunset. / Now at 820pm, the winds are coming and going, sometimes totally gone, and other times getting my wind chimes sounding off crisply.

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I’ll be back with many more updates on all of the above and below, I hope you have a great Monday night wherever you’re spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.


World-wide tropical cyclone activity:

>>> Atlantic Ocean:

Tropical Storm 06L (Fred) remains active over the Atlantic Ocean, with sustained winds of 50 mph…and is located about 255 miles northwest of Cape Verde Islands. Here’s the NHC graphical track map, and a satellite image…and what the computer models are showing

1.) A tropical wave is forecast to move off of the west coast of Africa on Thursday several hundred miles southeast of the Cape Verde Islands. Environmental conditions are expected to be somewhat conducive for gradual development of this system through the weekend while it moves westward at 15 to 20 mph.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…20 percent

Here’s a satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean

>>> Caribbean Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones

>>> Gulf of Mexico: There are no active tropical cyclones

Here’s a satellite image of the Caribbean Sea…and the Gulf of Mexico

Here’s the link to the
National Hurricane Center (NHC)

>>> Eastern Pacific:

Hurricane 13E (Jimena) remains active in the northeast Pacific, with sustained winds of 120 mph…and is located about 1000 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. Here’s the NHC graphical track map, and a satellite image. Here’s what the computer models are showing.

Tropical Depression 14E is active in the northeast Pacific, with sustained winds of 35 mph…and is located about 725 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Here’s the NHC graphical track map, and a satellite image. Here’s what the computer models are showing. 

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
:

Hurricane 12E (Ignacio) remains active in the central Pacific, with sustained winds of 80 mph…and is located about 275 miles north-northeast of Hilo, Hawaii. Here’s the NHC graphical track map, and a satellite image. Here’s what the computer models are showing

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

>>> Northwest Pacific Ocean

Typhoon 03C (Kilo) remains active in the central Pacific, with sustained winds of 115 mph, which is a major category 3 system, and is located about 798 miles east-northeast of Wake Island. Here’s the JTWC graphical track map, and a satellite image. Here’s what the computer models are showing.
>>> 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: 
Looking into Chameleons’ Eyes – Well known among nature’s best tricksters for their ability to change color to fit their background, chameleons have yet another talent up their lizardly sleeves – eyes that swivel around and appear to be looking in two directions at once.

In contrast to humans, who have to turn their heads to have a wider but still relatively narrow field of vision, chameleons enjoy a wider field of vision with the ability to swivel each of their eyes in a different direction.  Called ‘voluntary strabismus,” this ability enables the chameleon to minimize its body movements to reduce the likelihood of revealing its presence to those it hunts as well as to those that might hunt them.

Is this crazy adaptation really an example of this reptile’s eyes each being independent of the other, thus enabling them to simultaneously see two different views of their world?

Chameleon computer games

To Professors Ehud Rivlin of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Prof. Gadi Katzir of the University of Haifa, this seemed like an intriguing research question. They went about answering that question by getting chameleons to play a computer game especially designed to potentially frustrate the creatures, yet possibly solve the riddle of whether chameleons really enjoy ‘eye independence.’

When the researchers showed chameleons a double image of a tiny insect moving opposite directions across a computer screen, the reptiles focused first on one image with one eye while the other eye “wandered.” Suddenly, both eyes locked on one image a nanosecond before the reptile cocked its dart-like, sticky tongue and fired at-will.

“There were a few seconds of indecision when the chameleons were deciding which target to shoot at,” said Prof. Rivlin. “If the eyes were truly independent, one would not expect one eye to stay put and then have the other eye converge.  But we found that once the chameleon made its decision about which target to fire on, it swiveled the second eye around to focus on the same simulated fly the first eye was locked on.

This behavior pattern, said the researchers, suggests that the second eye has knowledge of where the first eye is directed.  That the chameleons are able to track objects moving in opposite directions before deciding which one to target suggests that their eyes are not really independent, as many have believed.