Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennJune 24-25 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Sunday:
Lihue, Kauai – 83F
Honolulu, Oahu – 87
Kaneohe, Oahu – 83
Kahului, Maui – 87
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures early Monday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kaneohe, Oahu – 76F
Kailua-kona – 68
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Monday morning:
1.09 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.19 POAMOHO 2, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.01 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.40 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
0.36 GLENWOOD, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing high pressure systems to the north and NE of the islands now. The trade winds will remain rather gusty Monday and Tuesday…strongest over those coastal waters around Maui and the Big Island. 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.
Tropical Cyclone activity in the eastern and central Pacific – Here’s the latest information coming out of the National Hurricane Center, covering the eastern north Pacific. You can find the latest tropical cyclone information for the central north Pacific (where Hawaii is located) by clicking on this link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.
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.
Beautiful beach on Kauai…
The trade winds will blow in the moderately strong realms, although remain fairly strong and gusty in those usual windiest places across the Hawaiian Islands. Weather maps show a weaker 1030 millibar high pressure system to our north now…thus we should see slightly less windy weather. The small craft wind advisory around Maui and the Big Island waters remains active in the waters from Molokai down through the Big Island. The trade winds will remain breezier through the first half of the new week ahead.
Conditions will remain quite dry in most areas, although an approaching upper level trough of low pressure may enhance windward showers over the next couple of days. A trough of low pressure, with its cooler air aloft, tends to thicken clouds. This in turn can increase the showers falling from the clouds…with a corresponding better chance of showers along the windward sides of islands. Kauai, being closest to this trough of low pressure, will have the best chance for showers, although the other islands may see more than the normal amount of showers over the next couple of days too.
It’s Sunday here in Kula, Maui, as I begin writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. Satellite imagery shows the presence of an upper level low pressure system to the north of the Hawaiian Islands. If this weather feature slides southward a little closer to our area, we could see an increase in showers at some point over the next couple of days. This time of year of course, it’s very difficult to coax many showers out of our overlying clouds…so it wouldn’t be surprising to see continued dry weather everywhere! Nonetheless, there is that chance that we could see more than the normal amount of showers falling along the windward sides, which would be a good thing to counteract the drought conditions in many parts of the islands now. ~~~ I fly to Oahu again today, for a friend’s 90th birthday party. This person happens to be a Zen Master, who I used to study with many years ago. I leave Maui Sunday morning on one of the first flights out, and then come back later in the afternoon. I’ll see many, many old friends at this party, who still live on Oahu…like I used to when I first arrived here in Hawaii way back in the middle 70’s. ~~~ I’ll be back early Monday morning with your next weather narrative. I hope you have a great Sunday night wherever you happen to be reading from! Aloha for now…Glenn.
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