June 27-28 2006

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

Lihue, Kauai – 85F
Honolulu, Oahu – 87
Kaneohe, Oahu – 83
Kahului, Maui – 86
Hilo, Hawaii – 81
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85

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

Honolulu, Oahu – 77
Hilo, Big Island – 72

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

0.49 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.08 MANOA LYON ARBORETUM, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.01 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
0.20 KAMUELA UPPER, BIG ISLAND

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing high pressure systems generally far to the north of our islands. This pressure configuration will keep moderate to locally fresh trade winds blowing today through Thursday…strongest during the afternoons as usual. 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 available during the daylight hours here in the islands…and when there’s a big moon rising just after sunset for an hour or two! Plus, during the nights and early mornings you will be able to see stars, and the sunrise too…depending upon cloud conditions.

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.

Tropical Cyclone Activity – The eastern Pacific hurricane season runs from May 15 through November 30…while the central Pacific runs from June 1 through November 30. The latest storm information for eastern Pacific can be found by clicking here. A storm tracking map can be found by clicking here. For the central Pacific, the latest information can be found by clicking here.

Aloha Paragraphs


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Young hula dancers
Photo credit: flikr.com

The Hawaiian Islands are moving back into a normal trade wind weather pattern, after several days of lighter than normal winds, along with some unusual early summer showers. The low pressure system that provided these uncommon conditions, now to the NW of Hawaii, continues to move away. We find light to moderately strong trade winds filling in behind the departing low. The expectation is that these trade winds will blow through the rest of this month, into the early part of July. Our weather will be quite nice, with lots of sunshine, although Tuesday finds quite a lot of sun dimming and filtering high level cirrus clouds around…which will move away later today or by Wednesday. This cirrus cloudiness will set the stage for colorful sunrise and sunset colors!

At lower levels of the atmosphere, satellite imagery shows at least some cloudiness riding in on the returning trade wind flow. Radar pictures however indicates that most of those clouds are dry ones, with just a few scattered showers falling here and there…focused most intently on the windward coasts and slopes. This rather dry reality, which is typical for this time of year, will prevail through the rest of this work week. The leeward sides should be dry and sunny well into the future, again once these high clouds move away.

It’s early Tuesday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I begin today’s sunset commentary. The high clouds that I wrote about in this morning’s narrative stuck around all day, which filtered and dimmed our Hawaiian sunshine in an on and off manner . The extent and coverage seems to have increased during the second half of the day, which typically paves the way for a gorgeous sunset…that is if it doesn’t get too thick. The winds came up during the afternoon hours in Kihei, just about the time I got there during my lunch break. There were white caps on the ocean surface, but it never got too out of hand, with no blowing sand while I was there. The water felt a little cooler today than it did yesterday, just because of the returned trade winds. It’s getting close to sunset up here in Kula, although it will be later down near the ocean in Wailea/Kihei, and on over on the Lahaina side. I hope you have a great Tuesday night, and might consider stopping by for another visit on Wednesday, when a new narrative, and of course new pictures will be here waiting for you. Aloha for now…Glenn.


By the way, all but two of the businesses who had advertising links on my site during the spring months, have remained active during this new three month summer period. One of those two will be coming back this winter, when the tax season spins-up again then. I just counted the number of links, and there is room for two more businesses to join the ranks on the left hand margin of all the pages, and there are lots of them. I’m going to open the registration period up again through these last few days of June, and then it will be closed until September. I want to thank those businesses (new and old) who are now a part of the Hawaii Weather Today team…I will be highlighting each of them individually soon. They are all good folks, and are supporting my efforts in keeping these pages updated daily, so please check out their sites and support them for supporting you and I both.