Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennNovember 6-7 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Tuesday:
Lihue, Kauai – 84
Honolulu, Oahu – 81
Kaneohe, Oahu – 82
Kahului, Maui – 85
Hilo, Hawaii – 85
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning:
Kailua-kona – 76F
Kahului, Maui – 69
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:
0.06 WAILUA, KAUAI
0.20 WILSON TUNNEL, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
1.11 OHEO GULCH, MAUI
3.01 PALI 2, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – The low pressure system to our west-southwest is keeping our winds on the light side, with the isobars still showing the wind flow out of the southeast or east-southeast. However, as the low fills and moves away towards the west, a 1025 millibar high pressure system to the NE, with its associated ridge, will bring back the trade winds late Wednesday or by Thursday. Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map. 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.
Tropical Bliss on Maui
photo credit: flickr.com
The rain producing Kona low pressure system, which brought good rains to Hawaii this past weekend, continues to move away towards the southwest. This departing low pressure system is still close enough though, that it wouldn’t be out of the question for a few more related showers to fall in places across the islands Tuesday afternoon. However, the threat of these showers will be diminishing, with improved weather conditions beginning in earnest Wednesday…which will remain the case through the remainder of this week.
The winds, which have been rather light and from the southeast direction, are about to get a little stronger…becoming light to moderately strong trade winds by later Wednesday into Thursday. The return of our easterly trade wind flow will bring us back into a more normal trade wind weather pattern soon. This simply means that we’ll see sunnier weather for the south and west facing leeward beaches. The north and east facing windward sides will see the usual partly cloudy skies, with a few passing showers…most generous during the night and early morning hours.
It’s Tuesday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. As you can see from this satellite image, we still have quite a few clouds to the south and south west of Hawaii. The cirrus clouds coming up off the tops of thunderstorms down there, were streaking across island skies Tuesday. We may very well see a wonderfully colorful sunset! As the atmosphere is stabilizing now, meaning it is less shower prone, our weather in general is getting better by the moment. ~~~ The webcam atop the summit of the near 14,000 Mauna Kea on the Big Island, showed great pictures of the snow atop that mountain Monday! Here’s a link to that webcam, so that during the daylight hours you can see that beautiful snow up there again today…and perhaps still a few patches on Wednesday. ~~~ As noted in one of the paragraphs above, we have the trade winds just around the corner to our east, which will usher in favorably inclined weather circumstances starting Wednesday, with sunnier and drier weather on tap through the rest of this week once it starts. I’ll be back early Wednesday morning with your next new weather narrative from paradise. I hope you have a great Tuesday night wherever you happen to be reading from! Aloha for now…Glenn.
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