Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs

May 6-7 2007

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

 
    A fabulous sunset from the Big Island of Hawaii

Photo Credit: Konaboy

The winds will be picking up later in the day Sunday, coming into the Hawaiian islands from the trade wind direction. There has been quite a bit of volcanic haze (vog) coming up from the Big Island, to the islands of Maui County…like it’s been doing in Kona for the past several days. The returning trade wind flow from the east and ENE will soon ventilate away the hazy conditions. The computer models suggest that now into Monday, a new high pressure system to the NW will move into range of Hawaii, bringing a new increase in our trade wind speeds… lasting through most of the new week.  

The overlying atmosphere remains dry and stable, which will continue to greatly limit showers across the Aloha state. The leeward sides will remain almost completely dry. There are no organized rain making systems on our weather horizon at this time, so that these dry weather conditions will persist into the first half of the new week ahead. The computer models suggest that there could be a modest increase in windward showers during the second half of the week. Those showers will mostly be restricted to the windward sides of the islands in general however.

It’s early Sunday evening here in Kula, Maui as I begin writing today’s sunset commentary. There’s an old saying here in the islands, that goes: "lucky you live Hawaii." This weekend made that adage so true, as the weather has been just wonderful! The days have been sunny, and the nights full of tropical stars. There have been those locally cloudy periods around the mountains during the afternoons, but hardly a drop of rain has fallen anywhere. Case in point: there hasn’t been any rain anywhere on Maui and the Big Island during the last 24 hours…with the largest precipitation accumulation anywhere in the state, atop that rainiest place in the world, which happens to be Mount Waialaelae on the garden island of Kauai…and that figure isn’t all that impressive at .12". ~~~ It has been such a mellow weekend, for me personally, and in the weather generally. At the moment, here in Kula, it is just about as laid-back as one could imagine! Inside of me, and out there, it is just very peaceful. I have no idea what is happening out in the bigger world, but here on my weather deck, with my wind chimes singing sweetly, it’s about as good as it gets! I hope you’re experiencing this level of contentness wherever you happen to be spending Sunday night! I will be back here, at the weather drawing board, again very early Monday morning, preparing your next weather narrative from paradise. Aloha for now…Glenn.

TV weather show online now:  It’s not exactly like watching it on your television, but it’s a fairly close approximation. Each day’s new show will replace the previous days show (Monday through Friday) at some point between 10am and noon (HST) in Hawaii. If you click here, it will take you to the website where it can be viewed. I want to thank the kind folks at the Maui Media Lab, located in Paia, Maui for this opportunity to show what’s happening weatherwise here in Hawaiian Islands! By the way, you will need to have a quicktime viewer on your computer to view the feed…you can get the free download here if it’s not already loaded on your machine.