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

85 – 75  Lihue, Kauai
87 – 70  Honolulu, Oahu
84 – 69  Molokai
86 – 66  Kahului AP, Maui
87 – 74  Kailua Kona AP
86 – 68  Hilo, Hawaii

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

0.20  Kokee, Kauai
0.01  Luluku, Oahu
0.02  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.00  Maui
0.36  Kapapala Ranch, Big Island

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

24  Mana, Kauai – NW
18  Waianae Harbor, Oahu – NNW
08  Molokai – NE
14  Lanai – NE
14  Kahoolawe – NE
17  Maalaea Bay, Maui – NNE
16  PTA Range 17, Big Island – WNW

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

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_enh_west_loop-12.gif
Tropical Storm 19E (Olaf) remains active
to the east-northeast of Hawaii / 60 mph winds –
deep storm far north…with its weak cold front
approaching the islands

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


http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tc_graphics/2015/graphics/EP192015W.gif
Tropical Storm Olaf track map…interesting how the path
away turns back towards the southwest, from the current
northeasterly direction. Nonetheless, the storm is forecast
to be downgraded to a tropical depression and then a
post-tropical remnant low pressure system, as this abrupt
direction change occurs

 

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/19E/imagery/vis0-lalo.gif
Close up view of Tropical Storm Olaf…as it continues to
gradually unwind

 

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/cpac/vis.jpg
Gradually weakening Tropical Storm Olaf…remains
a safe distance offshore

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/hi/vis.jpg
Clear to partly cloudy, along with a pre-frontal band of
clouds that brought a few showers to Kauai and Oahu,
which will migrate down to Maui County today – the
main cold front will arrive later today…first over Kauai


http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/RadarImg/hawaii.gif
A few showers…most concentrated over the
central islands – looping radar image


High Surf Advisory…south and east shores of
the Big Island



~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~



Our winds will remain light from the north to northeast for the most part. 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, northwest and northeast of the state. At the same time, we find deep storm low pressure systems far to our northwest and north…all of which have associated hurricane force winds. There’s a cold front draping southwest from a storm far to our north…which is approaching the state of Hawaii. Breezy trade winds will return later Tuesday into mid-week for a day or two, followed by southeast breezes…carrying volcanic haze locally across some parts of the state Friday into next weekend.

We’ll find a few showers falling over the islands…although generally dry weather will continue in most areas today. We find a minor cloud band moving through the state now, bringing a few showers. As we get into the new week, we’ll see a weak cold front arriving first on Kauai…with a modest increase in passing showers, as it moves down through the state. Accompanying these frontal clouds, we’ll find slightly cooler north to northeasterly breezes for a day or two, bringing more generally dry weather our way. Gusty trade wind conditions will then follow briefly. The latest models continue to suggest we’ll see a trough of low pressure, with its cold front approaching the state later in the week. This may bring a moist and unstable air mass into the state…with the possibility of locally heavy showers.

Here on Maui…It’s 6am Sunday morning with mostly clear skies. Here at my Kula weather tower this morning before sunrise, the air temperature was a cool 51.4 degrees, compared to the 67 degree reading down at the Kahului airport at the same time. 

– It’s now mid-afternoon, under mostly clear and sunny skies in all directions. There’s some thin high cirrus clouds drifting in from the east and northeast…associated with hurricane Olaf well offshore to the east-northeast.

– We’re into the early evening now, actually just past 5pm. I can still see those thin high cirrus clouds, so that there’s a good chance of having some nice colors at sunset. Today was yet another very special day in terms of our perfect autumn weather conditions! Just as we’re having this nice sunset, I see the ever larger moon rising in the eastern skies…really lovely combination!

I’ll be back with many 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.


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:

1.)   An elongated area of low pressure located about 1300 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula has become less organized during the past 24 hours. Environmental conditions are only marginal conducive, and development is becoming less likely while this system moves little during the next few days.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…10 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…10 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:

Tropical Storm 19E (Olaf) remains active in the central Pacific Ocean, located 935 miles east-northeast of Hilo, Hawaii, with sustained winds of 60 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:
>>> 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:  Waterfalls are more threatened than you might think – More than 100 years ago today, a 63-year-old Michigan schoolteacher took the first ride ever down Niagara Falls in a barrel. Annie Edson Taylor may have survived, but the future will tell if the waterfalls available for such (now-illegal) escapades will. Here are a few threats to waterfalls we can’t ignore if we want to preserve these natural wonders.

1. Drought

Last year, Yosemite Falls went dry for five months. While the falls have always been ephemeral, meaning they flow seasonally, California’s severe drought had stopped them two months earlier than usual in June until December rains started them again a month late. In The Atlantic, outdoorsman and author Michael Lanza wondered if the world’s sixth-highest falls would actually disappear, with climate change leading to less and less snowfall. Snowpack in the Cascade Range has already decreased 15 to 30 percent in the past 70 years.

“In the words of Yosemite National Park hydrologist Jim Roche: ‘Snow is…an endangered resource,’” Lanza writes. “Climate models offer different prognoses for the future of snow, depending largely on what steps society takes in coming years to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Unfortunately, humanity has steadily emitted more CO2 than even the worst-case scenarios in forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations body of more than two thousand scientists researching climate change.”

2. Dams

Although renewable hydroelectric power does important work in cutting the demand for fossil fuels, the technique sadly threatens our world’s waterfalls. For instance, Iceland gets 75 percent of its electricity from hydropower—at a cost to the pristine landscape. Excessive dam building has stopped or slowed to a trickle almost half of the waterfalls in the country since 2003, says artist Ruri, and much of the power generated goes toward multinational aluminum companies. She created Endangered Waters, an exhibit of 52 photographs of Iceland’s waterfalls alongside their sounds, to preserve their memory.