Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennAugust 28-29 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Tuesday:
Lihue, Kauai – 87F
Honolulu, Oahu – 90
Kaneohe, Oahu – 84
Kahului, Maui – 89
Hilo, Hawaii – 87
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 87
Temperatures early Wednesday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kaneohe, Oahu – 78F
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 Wednesday morning:
0.73 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.28 MANOA LYON ARBORETUM, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.01 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.28 HANA AIRPORT, MAUI
0.25 HONAUNAU, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing high pressure systems located far NE and NW of Hawaii. The trade winds will remain in the light to locally moderate levels Wednesday…then stronger Thursday 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.
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.
Plumeria Flowers…the scent of the islands
Photo Credit: flickr.com
Light to locally moderate trade winds will continue, picking up some during the second half of the week here in Hawaii. The latest weather map shows a pair of 1027 millibar high pressure systems, to the NE and NW of the islands…the source of our balmy trade winds now. The latest forecast calls for the trade winds to pick up gradually through the first half of this week, then increase further into the second half…perhaps even getting strong enough by Thursday or Friday to require small craft wind advisories in those windiest areas around the Aloha state. This type of trade wind regime is very common during the late summer period.
Rainfall will generally be quite light through most of the work week, with some increase expected towards the weekend. The latest computer forecast models suggest that an upper ridge of high pressure, that will keep us relatively dry through the week, although moving steadily westward…replaced by another upper level trough of low pressure by Friday. This in turn means that we could see an increase in showers by the weekend. As the trade winds will be quite strong then, the focus for showers will generally be along the windward sides…although some stray showers could be carried over into the leeward sides on the smaller islands then.
It’s Tuesday here in the islands, as I update this last paragraph of today’s narrative. Island skies were off and on cloudy Monday night into Tuesday morning, which brought the total lunar eclipse into and out of view…depending upon where one was watching from. Here in Kula, the clouds stuck around through the first part of the action, although around midnight I got up again, and finally had some success in viewing the rusty brown moon when it was covered by the earth’s shadow. I received some photo’s from one of my TV weather show viewers, or perhaps he’s a website reader, or both. He had stationed himself down a La Perouse Bay, down south of Wailea and Makena, and snapped some nice pictures. I’ll show then on my tv show Tuesday morning. Something just caught my eye in the window, and sure enough, it’s the reflection of the full moon, as it sinks down into the western horizon…beautiful sight that it is! I just walked out on my weather deck for a better view, and the moon is lighting up a very large area of the ocean offshore from Maalaea Bay and Kihei. These full moons are spectacular here in the tropics, especially when they make the ocean so visible at night! I hope that perhaps you had a chance to view the eclipse, even for a few seconds at some point last night…I’m glad I made the effort to peel myself out of that warm bed for the sight. ~~~ I’ll be back early Wednesday morning with your next weather narrative, I hope you have a great Tuesday night until then. Aloha for now…Glenn.
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