Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennDecember 4-5 2006
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across Hawaii Monday:
Lihue, Kauai – 81F
Honolulu, Oahu – 84
Kaneohe, Oahu – 81
Kahului, Maui – 82
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures early Tuesday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kaneohe, Oahu – 75F
Kahului, Maui – 63F
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Tuesday morning:
0.05 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.03 KAWAILOA, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.02 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
0.38 MOUNTAIN VIEW, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1026 millibar high pressure system located far to the NE of the islands Tuesday. This high will provide light to moderately strong trade winds through Wednesday…becoming moderately strong again Thursday onwards. 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.
Aloha Paragraphs
Photo Credit: Flikr.com
The upper level low pressure system to the west of the islands, which pushed all the cloudiness over the Aloha state this past weekend…is moving away. This
will allow clearing skies, with lots of sunny weather to return now. This new weather reality will make most everyone happy, as it was exceptionally cloudy the last couple of days! Those clouds dumped a lot of rain in places Saturday, although that precipitation backed-off quite a bit Sunday. Here’s a live webcam view of the Mauna Kea summit on the Big Island.
Drier air is moving in aloft now, which will have a subsiding tendency…limiting the shower forming capacity of whatever clouds that are around now. The general shift from cloudy and showery, to sunny and dry weather, will come as a relief to most island residents, and certainly those vacationers here in the islands now too. The latest forecasts suggest that these favorably inclined conditions will stick around through most of this early December week ahead.
The marine environment is liable to see large to very large waves breaking later this week. Storms now in the NW Pacific Ocean are getting stronger and stronger, as we edge into the last part of this autumn season. These gale and storm low pressure systems are projected to send a couple of pretty large swells in our direction. The first may arrive around Wednesday or Thursday, with a second shot of large NW swell activity later this coming weekend. There will be high surf advisory or even high surf warning flags being raised in our local waters if these swells arrive as expected.
It’s early Monday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I begin writing this sunset commentary. It was a very nice day here on Maui, and in the rest of the state as well. Temperatures were balmy, with pleasant trade wind breezes, and mostly dry everywhere. I made it to the beach during my lunch break from work. For the last few years, I’ve been making the choice to go for a walk and a swim, pretty much rain or shine, cool and windy, or warm and calm…on a daily basis. Recently though I’ve started to make a decision whether or not I’d go that day, rather than just going no matter what. It feels good to actually take a look at the conditions, and see if I feel like getting out there or not. At any rate, today was just plain nice, as the sun was very warm, and there wasn’t much in the way of a breeze. I must admit when I first dove into the ocean, I felt a slight chill, probably because of the totally cloudy skies this past weekend, which maybe dropped the water temperature a degree or so. Now that we are back into a sunny weather cycle, it will likely rise up a notch again over the next couple of days. It took about 15 seconds before it started to feel definitely warm enough, as the chill quickly passed. The sunset was a nice one, and still there’s a bit of an orange glow out to the west. The near full moon will be rising soon too, so that it will be another bright night here in the islands. I’ll be back very early Tuesday morning with your next weather narrative, be well until then. Aloha for now…Glenn.
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