Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennMay 17-18 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Thursday:
Lihue, Kauai – 82F
Honolulu, Oahu – 86
Kaneohe, Oahu – 81
Kahului, Maui – 87
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 83
Temperatures early Friday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kailua-kona – 76F
Kahului, Maui – 67
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Friday morning:
0.69 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.19 POAMOHO 2, OAHU
0.01 MOLOKAI
0.01 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.72 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
0.28 MOUNTAIN VIEW, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a ridge of high pressure moving southward towards the islands, with lighter winds today as a result. This weekend the ridge will straddle the islands, completely stopping the trade winds…with light and variable winds taking over into next week. 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.
Fashion show…Hawaiian style
There will be a few showers around, although in general, they will be quite light…and few and far between through the next couple days. As we move into the later part of the upcoming weekend, a trough of low pressure will be close enough, with it’s associated cold air aloft…to make our overlying air mass slightly unstable. This simply means that whatever clouds that form over and around the mountains during the afternoon hours, could drop a few showers. Those clouds will collapse when the sun goes down for the most part, leading to tropical star filled skies at night…with the same cycle starting over the next day. It will take the return of trade winds towards the middle of next week to bring whatever showers that are around, back over to the windward coasts and slopes. It’s early Thursday evening here in Kula, Maui as I begin writing this sunset commentary. Despite the presence of a high pressure ridge to our north, which kept the trade winds blowing today…we saw the beginnings of our anticipated convective cloud cover over and around the mountains this afternoon. I wasn’t here of course, as I was working in Kihei at my regular day job, although my neighbor told me that it did rain some earlier in the day. It was sprinkling when I got home a little while ago, with the air temperature at 630pm, showing 63.5F degrees on my outside sensor. As described above, we will soon be losing our trade winds, replaced by a light and variable wind condition…bringing sultry air to face as we get into the weekend. ~~~ Due to the cloud cover, it was somewhat cooler in some places around the state today, athough Kahului, down near the ocean here on Maui, was still able to reach 87 degrees this afternoon. That’s a fairly wide temperature range today, with a low of 63 and a high of 87 degrees…at least for this tropical location. ~~~ I hope you have a resful Thursday night, and that you will meet me here again Friday morning, when I’ll have your next weather narrative from paradise waiting for you then. Aloha for now…Glenn.
Hawaii Weather Today – TV program online now. It’s not precisely like watching it on television, although it’s quite a 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 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 receive the feed…you can get the free download here if it’s not already loaded on your machine.
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