Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennMay 16-17 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Wednesday:
Lihue, Kauai – 82F
Honolulu, Oahu – 87
Kaneohe, Oahu – 82
Kahului, Maui – 87
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 84
Temperatures early Thursday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Lihue, Kauai – 74F
Kahului, Maui – 63
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Thursday morning:
0.21 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.01 PALOLO FIRE STATION, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.06 OHEO GULCH, MAUI
0.11 KEALAKEKUA, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1025 millibar high pressure system far to the ENE of Hawaii Thursday. This high, which is offshore from the northern Baja coast of Mexico, has a ridge of high pressure extending more or less westward…ending up a couple of hundred miles north of Hawaii. This will keep light easterly trade winds flowing over us, perhaps shifting slightly to the ESE today into Friday. 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.
Huelo Point…windward east Maui
The atmosphere remains rather dry and stable, with just a few showers popping-up along the windward coasts at night…with a few light showers over and around the mountains during the afternoon hours. As we move into the weekend, a trough of low pressure will be close enough, with it’s associated cold air aloft…to make our overlying air mass a bit unstable. This simply means that whatever clouds and showers that form over and around the mountains during the afternoon hours, could become quite heavy. Those clouds will collapse when the sun goes down for the most part, leading to star filled skies at night…with the same cycle starting over the next day. It’s early Wednesday evening here in Kula, Maui as I begin writing this sunset commentary. I wonder how many nice days in a row can happen here in the islands, before something changes? I honestly can’t remember the last time we had inclement weather conditions! Days just keep being sunny, with hardly any rainfall falling anywhere. As noted above, we may see sultry weather arriving this weekend, with a possible increase in showers around the mountains during the afternoons. The trade winds will be dropping off in strength soon too, which will put us into what we call a convective weather pattern…which was adequately described in the paragraph above. No worries mate, as they say downunder though, as most of the beach areas will remain on the dry side right through the chance of increasing showers this weekend. ~~~ As I was mentioning the other day, I have a good friend arriving here on Maui Friday. I am looking forward to becoming somewhat of a tourist then, seeing Maui’s beauty through the eyes of a visitor. He lives with his wife in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, but will be taking a solo vacation this time. This friend and I go way back, back as far as college, which was "well over a hundred years ago"…at least! I’m looking forward to seeing him a lot, and since he is a bonafide weather nut, like myself, we will have lots to talk about. ~~~ I hope you have a great Wednesday night, wherever you happen to be reading from, and that you will join me here again on Thursday, for your next dose of Hawaii Weather Today, then. Aloha for now…Glenn.
Hawaii Weather Today – TV program 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 receive the feed…you can get the free download here if it’s not already loaded on your machine.
Email Glenn James: 
