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

82 – 70  Lihue, Kauai
88 – 73  Honolulu, Oahu
84 – 70  Molokai
87 – 68  Kahului AP, Maui
88 – 75  Kailua Kona AP
85 – 70  Hilo, Hawaii

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

0.04  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
0.23  Manoa Lyon Arboretum, Oahu
0.16  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.48  Kahakuloa, Maui
0.29  Kawainui Stream, Big Island

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

14  Mana, Kauai – NNE
29  Kuaokala, Oahu – N
18  Molokai – NNW
18  Lanai – NW
27  Kahoolawe – NNE
17  Maalaea Bay, Maui – NNE
27  Kealakomo, Big Island – N

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

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Category 3 Major Hurricane 19E (Olaf) remains active
to the east of Hawaii / 120 mph winds

Here’s a wind profile…of the offshore waters
around the islands – with a closer view


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Hurricane Olaf track map

 

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Close up view of Hurricane Olaf

 

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Powerful Hurricane Olaf…a safe distance east

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/hi/vis.jpg
Clear to partly cloudy, just a few showers locally…mostly
along the windward sides, although a few elsewhere –
hurricane Olaf to the east of the Big Island


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Just a few showers – looping radar image


Small Craft Wind Advisory…windiest coasts and
channels around the Big Island

High Surf Warning…east shores of the Big Island

High Surf Advisory…east shores of Maui – south
shores of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and the
Big Island

             SWELLS GENERATED BY HURRICANE OLAF WILL PRODUCE
          LIFE-THREATENING AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING SURF ALONG
      EAST FACING SHORES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS INTO THIS WEEKEND




 
~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~






Our north-northeasterly winds will be light to moderately strong…gradually weakening into the weekend. 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 high pressure systems to the west, north and northeast of the state. At the same time, we find low pressure systems far to our northwest and northeast. There’s a cold front draping southwest from a storm to our northeast…the tail-end of which is to the north of Hawaii. The current weather pattern will continue through the weekend, with our local winds becoming lighter from the north to northeast. As we push into the new week ahead, our winds will remain breezy from the north to northeast…bringing somewhat cooler air into the state for a few days in the wake of a weak cold front. Trade winds will start up by mid-week, followed by southeast breezes, carrying volcanic haze across some parts of the state next weekend.




We’ll find just a few showers falling over the islands, mostly along our windward sides…with relatively dry weather through the weekend. The leeward sides will remain nice and sunny to partly cloudy, and warm during the days. The windward sides will find those occasional passing showers, most generously during the night and early morning hours…right through weekend. Looking further ahead, as we get into the first couple of days of the new week, we’ll see a cold front arriving, ushering in cooler north to northeasterly breezes in its wake for a day or two…with a modest increase in passing showers Tuesday. The latest models suggest we may see a trough of low pressure arriving later next week. This trough will bring a moist and unstable air mass into the state, as well as locally heavy showers…with a possible thunderstorm.

Here on Maui…It’s 545am Friday morning with mostly clear skies.  Here at my Kula weather tower this morning before sunrise, the air temperature was a cool 52 degrees, compared to the warmer 70 degree reading down at the Kahului airport in contrast. There are clouds stretched out along the windward sides too…with a few showers falling.




– We’re into the early afternoon now, and our winds continue to be more out of the north than usual. Here in Kula, we’re having a relatively cool day, with fog blowing in this afternoon, and even some drizzle and light showers. The air temperature is 70.6 just outside my weather tower, according to my outdoor temperature sensor…with a warmer 85 degrees under mostly sunny skies down in Kahului at the same time. / Now at 245pm, skies are clearing, with partly cloudy conditions now…and the drizzly stuff has ended.


– We’ve pushed into the early evening, and skies are mostly clear, although there are low clouds being pushed through the central valley towards Kihei…by the cool northerly breezes. I expect it to be a little chilly tonight, although as long as the breezes remain active, temperatures won’t fall all that much. I must admit that I’m getting a little excited about my upcoming California vacation, as I’ll be with my friends Bob and Linda this time next week.


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



World-wide tropical cyclone activity:




>>>  Atlantic Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones




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: 




Tropical Depression 20E (Patricia) remains active inland over Mexico, located 95 miles northeast of Zacatecas, Mexico, with sustained winds of 35 mph. Here’s the NHC graphical track map, along with a satellite image of this system…and 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.


1.)   An area of low pressure could form several hundred miles south or south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula during the next couple of days. Development, if any, of this system is expected to be slow to occur while the low moves slowly toward the east-northeast or northeast early next week.


* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent 

* Formation chance through 5 days…low…10 percent


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

>>> Central Pacific:




Hurricane 19E (Olaf) remains active in the central Pacific Ocean, located 640 miles east of Honolulu, Hawaii, with sustained winds of 120 mph. Here’s the CPHC graphical track map, along with a satellite image of this system…and what the computer models are showing


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


>>>  Northwest Pacific Ocean: 





Tropical Storm 25W (Champi) remains active in the northwest Pacific Ocean, located 250 NM north of Minami Tori Shima, with sustained winds of 69 mph. Here’s the JTWC graphical track map, along with a satellite image of this system…and what the computer models are showing




>>> South Pacific Ocean: 







>>> North and South Indian Oceans / Arabian Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones


Here’s a link to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)



Interesting:  Newly discovered large asteroid will make flyby on Halloween – A large near-Earth asteroid named 2015 TB145, discovered on October 10 by the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS1 Telescope atop Haleakala, Maui, will pass close to Earth on October 31. The asteroid has a diameter of approximately 1,300 feet, and will pass within approximately 300,000 miles of Earth.  There is no possibility of this object impacting Earth.


The asteroid is already being studied by telescopes across the planet, and soon will be targeted by radar observations that will look for details as small as 6.5 feet on its surface. The radar observations will directly measure its size and shape, and determine whether the object has any satellites.


When it comes closer to Earth, it will brighten to approximately 10th magnitude, which means that amateur astronomers with small telescopes should be able to see it as it moves quickly across the sky.


The asteroid has an unusual orbit that is highly inclined relative to the ecliptic plane that contains the Earth, sun, other major planets, and most asteroids. The orbit is also highly elliptical (oval), which means that after passing Earth, the asteroid will go closer to the sun than to Mercury before going back out to the outer part of its orbit, where it spends most of its time, about four times as far from the sun as Earth is. The unusual orbit of this object made it difficult to discover — the last time that it came close to Earth was approximately 30 years ago.


The search for near-Earth objects by the Pan-STARRS telescopes is funded by the NASA Near Earth Object Observations program.


Founded in 1967, the Institute for Astronomy (IFA) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets, and the sun. Its faculty and staff are also involved in astronomy education, deep space missions, and in the development and management of the observatories on Haleakala and Mauna kea. The Institute operates facilities on the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii.”