Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

October 9-10 2006

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

Lihue, Kauai – 83F
Honolulu, Oahu – 83
Kaneohe, Oahu – 87
Kahului, Maui – 90
Hilo, Hawaii – 84
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 87

KAILUA-KONA – 77
HILO AIRPORT – 70

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:

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a ridge of high pressure stretched across the central islands. This will keep our winds on the light side…variable in direction through Wednesday.  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 along the Hana Highway…east Maui
Photo Credit: flikr.com

Our local winds in Hawaii will remain on the light side, from various directions…none of which will be the trade winds. A ridge of high pressure’s close proximity will keep our local winds coming up from the deeper tropics, generally from the SW to SE.  This light wind regime will cause warm and muggy conditions to continue, especially down near the beaches during the late mornings through the afternoons. Hazy conditions will continue off and on through the week too, with marginal visibilities at times due to intrusions of volcanic emissions from the Big Island of Hawaii over Maui County and possibly beyond towards Oahu.

Mornings will start off quite clear in most places, with afternoon cloud developments during the afternoons over the mountains. The daytime heating of the islands will start air rising, which will cause afternoon cumulus cloud formations over and around the mountains. These convective cumulus clouds may let loose with some showers, some of which may be locally heavy, although for the most part restricted to the leeward slopes of the Big Island. 

Weather maps and satellite imagery show a cold front moving in our direction Monday.  It’s still a bit early for active cold fronts to sweep down all the way through the islands, although it will bring prefrontal showers to Kauai and Oahu today. As we move into Tuesday and Wednesday, the chance of showers will fade again, with mostly dry conditions thereafter…although still a chance of some afternoon convective showers continuing just about anywhere.

It’s early Monday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start writing this non-sunset commentary...at least up here on the slopes of the Haleakala Crater. It’s foggy, quite foggy indeed, with a few sprinkles earlier. After I did my TV weather show down at the Maui Community College, I went directly over to the north shore, and surfed small to very small waves at Hookipa Beach Park. Generally I might not have gone out in such small waves, but since I had driven over there, and it was glassy and really nice out, I figured why not! I had a good time, rode a few waves, but mostly it was just about being out in the water for the second straight day, which is always a good thing. As I mentioned above, the clouds got thick this afternoon, and finally lowered right down to the ground this evening. I like it a lot when it gets to be like this, with thick banks of moisture bringing the visibilities right down to around an 1/8 of a mile or less. Actually, as I just swung around in my chair here in the weather tower, and found the sight downhill from here very restricted, almost qualifying as pea soup, but not quite. It was so nice to have a third day off from work, being that it was the Columbus Day holiday, I thoroughly enjoyed the added rest, although I didn’t do a lot of that, rather doing a fairly major house cleaning, and got into cleaning my car too. I hope you have a great Monday night, and might come on back again on Tuesday to find out what will be coming down in our Hawaiian Island weather picture on Tuesday. Aloha for now…Glenn.

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