Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennMarch 6-7 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Tuesday:
Lihue, Kauai – 82F
Honolulu, Oahu – 81
Kaneohe, Oahu – 81
Kahului, Maui – 84
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 82
Temperatures early Wednesday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kailua-kona – 71F
Kahului, Maui – 64
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Wednesday morning:
0.02 MOLOAA DAIRY, KAUAI
0.03 KUA RANGE, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.02 OHEO GULCH, MAUI
0.05 POHAKULOA KIPUKA ALALA, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a ridge now back down over the state of Hawaii, where it will keep light SE breezes in place Wednesday. Thursday will find winds gradually turning to the south during the day ahead of an active Pacific cold front approaching from the NW. 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.
A ridge of high pressure is now parked near the island of Kauai, which will keep fine weather around into Wednesday. Our local atmosphere remains somewhat hazy with such a light wind flow. As the winds turn SE soon, they will bring volcanic haze up over some parts of the state from the Big Island as well. Mornings will dawn clear just about everywhere, and on the cool side too. As the sun rises higher in the sky during the later mornings, the daytime heating will prompt onshore sea breezes, which will carry moisture from the ocean up along the volcanic slopes…where clouds will form during the late morning through the afternoon hours. There will be some mostly light showers falling around the mountains, but nothing heavy is expected.
There will start to be some changes in our local Hawaiian weather picture Thursday. An upper level trough of low pressure is expected to approach the islands then, which will have an associated surface cold front moving along with it. As this trough gets closer later Thursday and Friday, the high pressure ridge will get pushed down over the Big Island…or even south of there. This will cause our winds to become SE to SW ahead of the cold front. The latest thought is that there will be some prefrontal showers before the front itself arrives this weekend. The front and prefrontal showers will likely merge by the weekend…with some of combined showers becoming locally heavy. Kauai down through Maui will likely see the most generous rainfall. The models now show another cold front approaching the islands next week, with the chance of another round of showers later in the week…with nice weather between the two cold fronts.
It’s early Tuesday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I begin writing this sunset commentary. Yet another very nice day here in the Aloha state. The trade winds came up just enough to limit the afternoon cumulus cloud buildups around the mountains in many areas. The local beaches were mostly sunny, with some afternoon clouds around locally…although almost completely dry. I didn’t make it to the beach today, but I could sure feel it tugging on me! I finally found out how to fix the long list of reponses on the bottom of this page, so that you won’t have to scroll down a hundred miles to the bottom…to see the latest entries. Tomorrow morning I will begin archiving my narratives again, so that you can go back and find prior narratives, and the pictures on the narrative pages too. Additionally I was able to join the windsurfing and kiteboarding pages together on the left hand column, and soon there will be a picture of yours truly on the upper left hand side of this page as well. I don’t feel completely comfortable having my picture showing, although through the years I have been asked so many times, that I finally decided to go ahead and put it up there. At any rate, look for these changes soon. I hope you have a great Tuesday night, and that you might join me here again on Wednesday for the next edition of this narrative from paradise. Aloha for now…Glenn.
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