Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennSeptember 30-October 1 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Sunday:
Lihue, Kauai – 83F
Honolulu, Oahu – 87
Kaneohe, Oahu – 84
Kahului, Maui – 87
Hilo, Hawaii – 85
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures early Monday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kailua-kona – 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 Monday morning:
0.57 KALAHEO, KAUAI
1.50 POAMOHO 2, OAHU
0.06 MOLOKAI
0.14 LANAI
0.01 KAHOOLAWE
2.24 PUU KUKUI, MAUI
0.76 KAMUELA UPPER, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1030 millibar high pressure system located north of the islands…moving eastward. This pressure configuration will keep moderately strong trade winds blowing across our marine environment through Tuesday…stronger and gusty in those usual windier places. 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 and Radar 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.
Waimanalo Beach, Oahu
photo credit: flickr.com
The trade winds will continue blowing across the Hawaiian Islands, blowing steadily through the next week at least. The latest weather maps show a 1029 millibar high pressure system located far to the NNW of the islands Sunday evening. This trade wind producing high pressure cell, will keep moderate trade winds over us now. A small craft wind advisory is now in place across those windiest areas in the southern part of the state.
The windward sides will remain off and on wet through the next 24 hours, with a few showers sneaking over in the leeward sides locally. Satellite imagery shows an area of showery clouds to the east of the state. This moisture field will be carried in our direction, ending up most generously along the windward coasts and slopes. This is nothing too unusual, as often the trade winds carry these pockets of showers into the windward sides during such a trade wind weather pattern.
It’s Sunday evening as I begin writing this last paragraph of todays weather narrative. As noted in the two paragraphs above, the trade winds, and their associated showers will remain a fixed entity in our Hawaiian Island weather pattern for the time being. The windward sides have continued to see passing shower activity Sunday, which as mentioned above, will continue into Monday. ~~~ Here in Kula, in the upcountry area of east Maui, the clouds gathered force early, and by mid-morning were already as dark and threatening as they usually get during the afternoon hours. This afternoon, as was expected, we had a brief rain, which didn’t last all that long, but was a relief, after being such a threat all day. Later in the afternoon, the clouds cleared quite a bit, with late afternoon sunshine breaking through the partly cloudy skies at times. ~~~ Satellite imagery shows some more high level cirrus cloudiness streaming our way from the deeper tropics to our SW. This cirrus will likely give some great sunset colors in those areas of the Aloha state where they happen to be overhead…and then perhaps again early Monday morning for sunrise. I’ll be back early Monday morning, well before sunrise with your next weather narrative from paradise. I hope you have a great Sunday night wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.
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