Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

August 29-30 2006

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

Lihue, Kauai – 84F
Honolulu, Oahu – 87
Kaneohe, Oahu – 84
Kahului, Maui – 88
Hilo, Hawaii – 84
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 88

HONOLULU, OAHU – 78
HILO AIRPORT – 70

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:

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1030 millibar high pressure center located far to the NNE of our islands. This high pressure cell will keep moderately strong trade winds blowing across our area through Thursday…strong and gusty during the afternoons locally.  Here’s a Weather Map Symbol page for clarification about what all those weather symbols mean on the map.

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 (where Hawaii is) runs from June 1 through November 30. The latest storm information for the eastern Pacific can be found by clicking here. A storm tracking map for both the central and eastern areas can be found by clicking here . For the central Pacific, the latest storm information can be found by clicking here.

 

  Is this wonderful or what!?
Photo Credit: flikr.com

The recent muggy weather here in the islands is now long gone. The responsible low pressure systems that we saw over the weekend, have moved well away from Hawaii now. This "opens up the flood gates" for moderately strong trade winds to take over as the dominate weather influence in our Hawaiian Islands weather picture. This comes with a sigh of relief, as it got a little too sultry there for awhile, and too cloudy for most of our local sun worshippers as well!

The latest weather charts show a large area of high pressure located to the NE of Hawaii now.  This trade wind producing high pressure cell will do just that, spinning out cooling and refreshing breezes through the rest of this work week. As we get into the weekend time frame, the computer models show another upper level trough arriving, with lighter winds, and chance of some added showers then. It’s still a little too early to get worried about this, as things could easily change between now and then. For the time being, our leeward beaches will find tons of warm late summer sunshine beaming down, and remain dry. The windward sides will see a few passing showers, but nothing too exaggerated is expected.

It’s early Tuesday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start writing this sunset commentary. The sun is going down earlier these days, as we head into the last three weeks of summer. I know, I know, I’m always writing about my lunch time beach visit. I would write about something else, but besides the great work I’m involved in, that nature experience during the middle of the day, that takes me out of the office, is often the high point. Today it was so warm and toasty, with hardly a breath of wind when I first got there, and practically a gale when I left 35 or so minutes later…it changes that fast! While I was in the ocean, I was thinking to myself, what is this like for me, what could I possibly write about later, that I haven’t written about before? I started to think of my sensual experience being in that warm ocean, and riding a few small waves. The one word I could come up with was sort of interesting, and it might not make a lot of sense, but here it is: Flan. Yep, that Mexican dessert, that pudding like stuff, which is so tasty. Being in the ocean today was like eating Flan, it was that pleasurable!  On another note, and I carry this forward again because most of you readers love the islands…there’s an article in the latest edition of Marin Magazine (Marin County is just north of San Francisco) about the Hawaiian Islands. The author, a lady named Mimi Towle, called me for some information,  so that there are some quotes from me in the piece as well. I thought that you might enjoy reading it. It’s around 645pm, the sun set several minutes ago, and it’s still warm up here at the 3000+ elevation in Kula, with my thermometer reading 68.4F degrees. I hope you have a great Tuesday night, and just like a milkman or a newspaper boy, I’ll be bringing your early morning weather narrative right to your computer screen early Wednesday morning. Aloha for now…Glenn.

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