Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennJuly 3-4 2006
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across Hawaii Monday:
Lihue, Kauai – 84F
Honolulu, Oahu – 86
Kaneohe, Oahu – 83
Kahului, Maui – 85
Hilo, Hawaii – 84
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures early Tuesday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Lihue, Kauai – 76
Hilo airport – 72
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours (as of Tuesday morning) on each of the major islands:
0.51 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.04 MANOA LYON ARBORETUM, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.14 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
0.09 MOUNTAIN VIEW, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing moderately strong high pressure systems located far to the NNE and NE of our islands. This pressure configuration will keep moderate to locally fresh trade winds blowing today through Wednesday…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.
Photo credit: Kona boy
The long stretch of fine weather here in the Hawaiian Islands will continue. The trade winds continue to be the dominate weather feature, blowing in the moderate to fresh range. The overlying atmosphere remains quite dry and stable, limiting showers greatly…even along the windward coasts and slopes. Air temperatures will be warm to very warm during the days, and seasonably warm near the ocean at night. Sunshine will be abundant just about everywhere, with just those occasional partly to mostly cloudy periods here and there…especially over and around the mountains. The latest computer forecast models show little change in these favorably inclined weather conditions well into the future.
This is the time of year when we have to keep an eye out for tropical cyclones, although it’s still a little early in the summer for much activity. The eastern Pacific, or towards Mexico, is where we watch most intently, although despite the presence of a couple of weak tropical disturbances, there are no threatening areas at this time. Looking even further east, there are no tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico, or the Atlantic Ocean either. One disturbed area of weather in the Gulf has lots of thunderstorms however, and is expected to bring locally heavy rains to the Texas coast. We have to look west toward the Philippine Sea to find a hurricane, which is actually called a typhoon in that part of the world.
It’s Monday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start this post sunset commentary. I just heard my first firecrackers going off up the road! Today was a good one for exercise, starting off with my sunrise walk, moving into my lunch-time beach walk and swim. Then after work I took the drive up the mountain to my favorite skateboard stretch of road. There’s plenty of walking back up, after carving tight turns riding down. I checked out the sunset as I was driving down, listening to rock and roll on Manao Radio on the FM dial…tune in here on Maui, and online. I’ve got a loose plan to surf early Saturday morning with a friend from work, I’ll call him at 6am as I leave. I’ll be back here before that of course, before breakfast and coffee, first thing. I hope you have a great Monday night! Aloha for now…Glenn.
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