Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

September 30-October 1 2006

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

Lihue, Kauai – 84F
Honolulu, Oahu – 87
Kaneohe, Oahu – 85
Kahului, Maui – 89
Hilo, Hawaii – 84
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 86

KANEOHE, OAHU – 78
HILO AIRPORT – 74

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

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1026 millibar high pressure center located to the NE of the Hawaiian Islands. This high pressure cell, with its associated ridge will give us light trade winds through Monday. A couple of troughs in the vicinity of Hawaii will keep the winds from being as strong as they might otherwise be.  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.

 

Beauty spot
Photo Credit: flikr.com

We’ll find light to moderately strong trade winds blowing through Monday. Weather maps show a moderately strong high pressure system located to the NE of our Hawaiian Islands now. This high pressure cell will keep our winds light to moderately strong, although somewhat gusty along the windward sides during the afternoon hours locally. The latest forecasts show them calming down some early in the new week ahead, as an early season low pressure system forms to our NW…sending a cold front in our direction by mid-week. 

A rather modest area of moisture to the SE of the islands will bring some minor showers to the windward sides of the islands into Sunday. Satellite images and weather maps show a trough of low pressure to the SE of the Big Island of Hawaii. This area is expected to move across the Aloha state Sunday into Monday or so. The moisture associated with this trough come into the state, which will increase clouds and showers a little tonight into Sunday…mostly along the windward sides.

It’s early Saturday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start writing this sunset commentary.  I’ve been sitting out on my weather deck, soaking in a little late in the day sunshine, one of the resident cats laying next to me, as I sip on a glass of excellent 2003 Meritage red wine from Washington state. I forgot to tell you in this morning’s narrative…while I was sitting down in the small audience watching a Hula performance last evening before the film started…the Kumu, or the teacher, asked two young dancers to go out in the audience and pick someone to bring back up on stage. I was sitting in the 3rd or 4th row back, but somehow this young girl came right to me and put out her hand!  The teacher had her dance with me alone on stage, with everyone watching. She wanted us to do Tahitian dancing, which is very fast, and very active in the hips. She immediately exclaimed: "I see you on TV", which had me feeling even a little more self conscious. At any rate, I danced up there, and because I’ve been dancing lately, I know how to move my body, and I didn’t hold back…you can’t with Tahitian dancing! She said I did very well, and everyone clapped. I made a bee line from the stage right into Fearless, the Jet Li film I saw last night, which I enjoyed a lot. Since I’d been on the dance floor once alreaday that day, I figured I’d better drive down to Paia then, and do some more of that groovy Club dancing. I love relating in that way, and stayed right to the end, before driving through to Kula…late at night. It’s so hazy this evening, and there are cirrus clouds, which should work together to give us another nice sunset on this last day of September 2006. I bbq’d some organic chicken in the afternoon, which I’ll be eating as chicken tacos for the next several days. I’m looking down the barrel of an unplanned Sunday, which is fine with me. I’m playing with the idea of going surfing on the north shore, although it will depend on my mood in the morning. Speaking of which, I’ll see you back here then with the next updated narrative. Aloha for now…Glenn.

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