Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs

March 16-17 2006

Lihue, Kauai – 74F
Honolulu, Oahu – 79
Kaneohe, Oahu – 77
Kahului, Maui – 80
Hilo, Hawaii – 73
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 77

6.80 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
2.30 KAHUKU, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.03 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
2.08 KULA BRANCH STATION, MAUI
0.43 GLENWOOD, BIG ISLAND

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a low pressure system to the NW….with its associated trough to our west. This will keep light and variable winds around today into Saturday. Here’s a Weather Map Symbol page for clarification about what all those funny weather symbols mean.

Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcam on the summit of near 14,000 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. The tallest peak on the island of Maui is the Haleakala Crater, which is near 10,000 feet in elevation. These two webcams are only available during the daylight hours here in the islands…that is unless there’s a big moon rising just after sunset for an hour or two!

Satellite Images – To view the cloud conditions we have here in Hawaii, please use the following satellite links, starting off with the Infrared Satellite Image of the islands to see all the clouds around the state during the day and night. This next image is one that gives close images of the islands only during the daytime hours, and is referred to as a Close-up visible image. This next image shows a larger view of the Pacific…giving perspective to the wider ranging cloud patterns in the Pacific Ocean…out from the islands. To help you keep track of where any showers may be around the islands, here’s the latest animated radar image.

Aloha Paragraphs



Double Rainbow in upcountry Maui!

The threat of showers, some of which will be locally heavy, continues to be the name of the game here in Hawaii. This is starting to sound like a broken record or something! A long lasting trough of low pressure remains anchored in place to the west of the islands. This “seemingly permanent” weather fixture, I mean feature, just doesn’t want to budge. In one form or another, this area of low pressure to the west of Kauai, has kept the Aloha state off and on wet for the last month.

The latest computer forecast models continue to paint a wet picture through the rest of this week. If that wasn’t enough, they go on to indicate wetter than normal conditions extending into next week as well. I know that folks who are coming here on vacation are starting to “freak out” some, and I can’t say I blame them. It should be stated though, that this extended off and on rainy period is just that…off and on. It hasn’t been showering constantly, and some places have hardly seem a drop.

The overlying atmosphere remains quite unstable, and shower prone. There continues to be a rich stream of tropical moisture being carried over the state on the SW upper winds. This is pumping tons of high and middle level clouds overhead, which is doing a bang-up job of dimming our famous Hawaiian sunshine. Meanwhile, the lower level rain bearing clouds are vertically stacked in places. It’s where these taller clouds are forming, that whatever flooding rainfall is happening. Recently Kauai and the Big Island have had the heaviest rains.

Actually, overnight into Thursday morning there wasn’t very much rainfall in general. It’s still cloudy as can be, although most of that is the non rainy type of high clouds. The dynamics are still in place for locally heavy showers to fall, with flooding a result. With this kind of meteorological situation going on, we could see showers popping-up just about anywhere, with the distinct threat of localized heavy showers here and there. Satellite imagery does show some occasional breaks in the overcast, so that there may even be a few sunny periods, although not many I’m afraid.

It’s early Thursday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start this sunset commentary.  Once again the heavy rains continued to march into the island of Kauai from the waters south of that water logged island. There were showers that fell in other places too, but nothing as long lasting or intense in nature. Although a torrential downpour occurred right here in Kula late in the afternoon, ending just before I got home. As I was driving home through the pasturelands between Pukalani and Kula, I was delighted to see the most awesome double rainbow…it was spectacular! Just now the sun is setting, and before its done, let me run out on the weather deck and take a look, I’ll be right back. Alright I’m back…it turned out to be a great sunset, the middle level alto cumulus clouds lit up like a bed of coals in a bbq, I felt like throwing a piece of something on there. I got to the beach today, and once again, despite the cloudiness, it was still plenty warm enough for a pleasant beach walk and swim. I hope you have a great Thursday night, and awaken Friday morning ready to go. I’ll have a new narrative  waiting for you then. Aloha for now…Glenn. 

p.s. The total number of page hits Thursday, March 16th totaled 17,061. That’s a lot of folks looking at all of these various webpages, I trust you are finding what you need in terms of your weather needs. Just for the record, I still have five spots open for advertising links, please see below:

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