Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

July 4-5 2006

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

Lihue, Kauai – 84F
Honolulu, Oahu – 87
Kaneohe, Oahu – 83
Kahului, Maui – 86
Hilo, Hawaii – 82
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 airport – 77
Molokai airport – 72

0.22 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.01 LULUKU, OAHU
0.02 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.70 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
2.00 GLENWOOD, BIG ISLAND

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing moderately strong 1030 millibar high pressure system located far to the  NE 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.

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.

It’s early Tuesday evening here in Kula, Maui, a little before the sunset hour. As it turned out, I never left the house, that is after running down to get breakfast at a french restaurant down the mountain. It was closed however, so I just took a slow, scenic tour back up through Kula, home again for the day. I dove into some paperwork that dates way back, some early stuff from my TV show. It was good to separate it, keep some, and recycle the old paper away. I had planned on surfing this morning, but judged it to be too small, and with too much wind on it…so perhaps this coming weekend. I know I should be listening to The Who, or the Rolling Stones, or some other hard rocking music, in celebration of this special day. For some reason though, it’s been a very introspective day, and I find myself at the moment listening to songs of the Secret Garden, which is very soft and gentle stuff. I’m feeling in harmony with the day. I trust you are experiencing freedom and independence from wherever you are now. I’ll be back very early Wednesday morning with the next narrative. Aloha for now…Glenn