Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennJuly 26-27 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Thursday:
Lihue, Kauai – 85F
Honolulu, Oahu – 88
Kaneohe, Oahu – 84
Kahului, Maui – 88
Hilo, Hawaii – 88
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures early Friday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Honolulu, Oahu – 77F
Hilo, Hawaii – 70
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:
0.57 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.70 OAHU FOREST NWR, OAHU
0.19 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.65 OHEO GULCH, MAUI
0.53 WAIAKEA UKA, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a moderately strong 1028 millibar high pressure system located to the north of Hawaii Friday. Ridges extend both east and west from the center of this trade wind producing anticyclone. The trade winds will remain light to moderately strong over Hawaii’s coastal waters…although locally stronger and gusty in those usual windiest locations through Saturday. 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. Here’s a tracking map covering both the eastern and central Pacific Ocean.
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.
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu
The trade winds continue to bring cooling and refreshing relief from the mid-summer tropical heat in the Islands. Weather maps show well established high pressure systems located to the NNW and NE of the Aloha state. These high pressure cells will keep the trade winds blowing across our area through the rest of this week…although becoming a bit lighter later this weekend into the middle of next week. The small craft wind advisory flags continue to wave in the breezes over the channels in the southern part of the state, as well as those windiest coastal areas on Maui and the Big Island.
The lush tropical vegetation will continue to be watered locally along our windward coasts and slopes…thanks to a few passing showers carried in by the trade winds. The computer forecast models continue to show an upper level low pressure system moving near the state soon. As this upper air feature gets closer, there will likely be an increase in showers along the windward sides, especially during the Friday and Saturday time frame…some of which could be locally heavy. The leeward slopes on Maui and the Big Island will find showers falling too during the afternoon hours locally…some of those could be heavy as well.
It’s Thursday here in the islands, as I begin writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. Thursday will be yet another great day here in Hawaii, another in a long series of days that just keep peeling by on the calender. July is often known as one of our better months, although that could be said about any of the 12 in all honesty! We’re at the tail-end of July, ready to move into the deep summer month of August. What exactly does deep summer mean? I guess I’m just referring to the fact that it will be warm in every way: in the air and in the ocean too, just everything about our weather is warm during that last full month of summer. This is of course true at all sea level locations,with one having to go up in elevation to find any hint of cooler temperatures. ~~~ With all that heat around, of course we begin to think in terms of spinning storms on the ocean at our tropical latitudes. Although, just to set the record straight, there won’t be any tropical cyclones anywhere near Hawaii at least through the end of this month. There is a tropical storm presently churning the water in the eastern Pacific, although it’s on its last leg, and will be dissipating over the next couple of days…posing no threat to Hawaii whatsoever. We may find a tropical cyclone spinning into the central Pacific next month, although that is yet to be seen. ~~~ I’ll be back early Friday morning with your next weather narrative from paradise, I hope you have a great Thursday night wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.
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