April 4-5 2006

Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across Hawaii Tuesday:

Lihue, Kauai – 76F
Honolulu, Oahu – 78
Kaneohe, Oahu – 76
Kahului, Maui - 79
Hilo, Hawaii – 77
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 82

Temperatures early Wednesday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:

Lihue, Kauai – 72
Kalaeloa, Oahu – 66

Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals during the last 24 hours (as of Wednesday morning) on each of the major islands, including:

2.69 MT WAIALAELAE, KAUAI
0.75 POAMOHO 2, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.02 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
1.31 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
1.34 MOUNTAIN VIEW, BIG ISLAND

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1030 millibar high pressure system to our NE. This pressure configuration will cause mostly moderately strong trade winds to blow Wednesday and Thursday…strong and gusty at times. 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

Dolphin sighting!


The Hawaiian Islands have returned to a normal trade wind weather pattern Tuesday. A high pressure system north of the islands is providing these fresh breezes. The NWS forecast office in Honolulu has a small craft wind advisory in force over some parts of the coastal environment. It appears that these refreshing breezes will be with us through the rest of the week, often blowing quite strongly.

The leeward sides will be nice and sunny for a change. Skies should remain clear during most of the morning hours, with some spots finding partly cloudy conditons developing during the afternoons. These clouds shouldn’t drop rain though, although perhaps the Kona slopes of the Big Island may encounter a few showers here and there.

The windward sides, where the trade winds arrive most directly, will see a few showers. The most frequent drops of rain will fall during the cooler night and early morning hours. We see a weakening cloud band paralleling the windward coasts and slopes Tuesday, which will help to moisten the tropical vegetation at times. Behind this old front boundary, the clouds look less showery.

The latest computer forecast models don’t show anything threatening coming our way. As a matter of fact, there appear to be no big departures from the rather pleasant early spring trade wind weather pattern through the rest of this week, and likely into the early part of next week. Just those showers along the windward sides, otherwise nice weather will persist. Days will be warm to very warm…nights seasonably cool.

It’s early Tuesday evening, as I begin today’s sunset commentary. The trade winds are back full-on, really blowing quite strongly near the coasts. I was at the beach at lunch today, and there were millions of white caps chalking-up the ocean surface in Kihei. Not only the Kihei beaches, but all beaches where the trade winds could reach. It was a bit irritating when I got out of the water, showered, and was changing back into my office clothes. The ocean felt so nice though, sort of waking me up in a way that nothing else quite can. It’s just before the sunset time now, right around 640pm, and there are lots of pretty orange colors gracing the sky. A stream of high cirrus clouds arrived late in the day, and are reflecting the last rays of this nice day in the most colorful way. There’s no wind up here in Kula, so that the leaves are perfectly still. It’s so quiet as a result, other than that loud truck making that backing up sound that they do in reverse. It was a good day, after a shakey start, when a power outage last evening threw off my internet connectivity, which is now fixed. I just love it when things go right! I hope you have a great Tuesday night, and here’s a personal invitation to you, that’s right you, to meet me here again Wednesday, for the next weather update from paradise. Aloha for now…Glenn.
 

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