Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

2.03 MOUNT WAIALEALE. KAUAI
0.56 POAMOHO 2, OAHU
0.12 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.44 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
0.55 LAUPAHOEHOE, BIG ISLAND

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1033 millibar high pressure system located to the NE of our islands. This high pressure cell, with its connecting ridges, will keep our local trade wind speeds in the moderate to fresh category through Monday. 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

A Big Island Kona beach

The trade winds will blow in the moderate to fresh category through Sunday. The expectation is that they will remain quite strong through Tuesday, and then perhaps slack-off some around the middle of the new week coming up. The latest computer forecast models show them remaining somewhat softer than the current trade wind flow through next Friday. Climatology would lead us to believe that they would pick up again by next weekend, and likely blow steadily through most of the rest of the month of June.

There have been some passing showers falling from the clouds being carried along the windward sides, by the gusty trade winds. As usual the Kona slopes of the Big Island often have a few showers falling later in the afternoon hours, or into the evening hours too. An upper level trough of low pressure, now to our north, is moving westward. This atmospheric destabilizing weather feature will move by the state Saturday. This may cause some increase in our showers…especially along the windward sides. This upper low will move away Sunday, when showers should back-off again then.

It’s Saturday as I begin this evening’s sunset commentary. I probably would have been at the computer sooner, were it not for a long string of songs by Neil Young, on Manao Radio, broadcast live from here on Maui. I just put the Praire Home CD into my computer, sung by Neil Young. It’s getting almost dark, not quite as dark as the glass of Spanish red wine on the desk here with me though. Neil’s song is talking about falling off the face of the earth…what does that mean? This next song is called Dream, what a voice he has! On another note, my Dad’s Birthday, Mr. Edward Eugene James, was yesterday, and now it’s Father’s Day, what a blessing to have my great Father alive at this time, I’m sending him the most solid life line that I can, the continued gift of life. I send that to you too, from my weather heart. Aloha for now…Glenn.