Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

September 24-25 2006

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

Lihue, Kauai – 83F
Honolulu, Oahu – 85
Kaneohe, Oahu – 83
Kahului, Maui – 87
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 86

LIHUE, KAUAI – 77
KAHULUI AIRPORT – 72

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

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a weaker 1021 millibar high pressure center located far to the NE of our islands Monday. This high is too far away to give us more than light to locally moderate trade winds through Tuesday…locally gusty during the afternoon hours.  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.

 

Early Autumn in the tropics…late in the day
Photo Credit: flikr.com

The light-moderately strong trade wind regime will remain in place today into Monday. A weaker 1027 millibar high pressure system, far to the NE, is now too far away to provide much more than light-moderately strong trade winds, although perhaps moderately strong along the windward sides of the southern islands. The latest forecast has these trade winds at about the same levels through Tuesday, then picking up some Wednesday through Friday, only to calm down again by next weekend, as an early season cold front approaches the the state of Hawaii.

We’ll see some windward showers, and a few afternoon upcountry showers now too. The leeward sides may see a few showers locally too, especially over the Kona slopes on the Big Island, and along the Haleakala slopes during the afternoons. We may see somewhat heavier showers now, although still spotty in nature, as an upper trough of low pressure edges in our direction…except along the Big Island’s windward side, where satellite imagery shows more numerous showers arriving. Conditions should return to normal again Tuesday through Friday, then potentially become a little wetter again by next weekend as the winds getting lighter, and we might see an increase in afternoon showers then.

It’s early Sunday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start writing this sunset commentary.  I didn’t set foot off this property today, and barely outside the house if the truth be told. I washed two loads of laundry, hung out on the line to dry. Washed my car, fed the cats, wondered out on my weather deck to check on the weather conditions a few times, limited though it was…with clouds and misty weather around much of the day. I added a can of organic diced tomatoes to the vegetable soup I made last evening, that and read most of the rest of the day. It was a day filled with the most pleasurable lounging, laying low, recouperating from yesterday’s very long surfing session on the Lahaina side. I’m sipping on a glass of red wine, Malbec is the type of grape, and listening to gentle piano music. Perhaps it should be Hawaiian music, but somehow it just isn’t. I feel deeply relaxed and well with life, ok with how things are, despite all the ongoing injustices that continue happening in the larger world view. It’s wonderful to lead an active life, and yet have the opportunity to pull back once in a while, shut down the jet engines so to speak, just deeply mellow-out for a day here and there. At the same time, I’m already looking forward to jump starting myself back into the work mode early Monday morning, at which point I’ll meet you back here. I trust you will have a pleasant Sunday night wherever you happen to be spending it. Aloha for now…Glenn.

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