Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha paragraphs
Posted by GlennFebruary 22-23 2008
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Friday:
Lihue, Kauai – 79
Honolulu, Oahu – 80
Kaneohe, Oahu – 79
Kahului, Maui – 77
Hilo, Hawaii – 82
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 81
Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at 4 a.m. Friday morning:
Barking Sands, Kauai – 68F
Kahului, Maui – 58
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 afternoon:
0.03 MOLOAA DAIRY, KAUAI
0.01 WHEELER AIRFIELD, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.01 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.00 MAUI
0.00 BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map. A high pressure ridge extending west from a small high pressure system just to the east-northeast of Hawaii…is now back down over Maui County. This pressure configuration will cause light winds across the state into Saturday. Here’s a Weather Map Symbol page for clarification about what all those weather symbols mean on the map.
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.
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.
This week’s light wind regime will carry into Saturday, picking up some Sunday from the south. Saturday the winds will remain in the light and variable category, as the high pressure ridge has dropped down over Maui County again. We’ll find locally breezy south kona winds arriving Sunday, associated with a weakening cold front arriving Sunday into Monday…followed by another round of light winds. We may see some form of light south to southwest winds develop as another cold front approaches the state around the middle of the new week ahead. The trade winds will finally return after that next weak cold front moves through the state around next Thursday…lasting into the weekend.
The long lasting dry spell will hold through Saturday, with more good weather on tap. Saturday morning will start off mostly clear, and generally end up that same way in most areas. The exceptionally dry conditions will keep whatever few showers that happen to occur, to a bare minimum at best…with most areas remaining totally dry. The computer models continue to show a modestly showery cold front arriving later Sunday into Monday, followed by more dry weather as we move into the first several days of the new week. This frontal passage isn’t expected to bring heavy rain with it by any means, and most of whatever showers that do arrive, will fall over the windward sides of the islands at that.
It’s Friday evening as I begin updating this last paragraph of today’s narrative. The only problem area that I can see here in the islands, in terms of the weather, is the rather heavy volcanic haze that covers parts of the Big Island. Here on Maui, it’s been hazy around the edges too. Our weather otherwise has been great, with most days this week continuing to be very dry, and with lots of sunshine beaming down. This week would have been a good week to work on any roof problems, or to get that big painting job done. It’s interesting how the weather is, as just recently, folks were complaining about how wet it was here in the islands, at least along the windward sides. Now, it has turned bone dry, with many areas, even those normally more showery windward areas…not experiencing one drop of rain for the better part of a week. ~~~ This cold front, which will arrive later this weekend, will take until later Monday to travel down through the island chain. It may however stall along the way, most likely over the central islands somewhere between Molokai and Maui? Then again, it may be able to find just enough strength to make it to the northern half of the Big Island, although perhaps barely. We can fine tune all of this as we get into the weekend, finally taking a look at its condition once it gets a little closer. Here’s a looping satellite image so you can start to keep an eye on this approaching weather feature. ~~~ I’ve decided to see the new film called Vantage Point (2008), starring William Hurt, Dennis Quaid, Sigourney Weaver, and Matthew Fox. This film is about eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. The critics aren’t in love with this film, giving it grades ranging between C and B. As usual, I’m in the mood for getting back to the theater, sitting with all those strangers in the dark…getting carried away into a totally different reality. As I almost always have to say here, this certainly isn’t the kind of film that most people would be drawn to, and even watching the trailer might be a bit too much! If you’re so inclined however, here’s the trailer for this dramatic thriller. ~~~ I’ll be back early Saturday morning, not very early though, like I am during the weekdays…with your next weather narrative. I’ll also let you know what I thought of this new film then as well. I hope you have a great Friday night wherever you may be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.
Interesting: Gravity powered lamp generates as much light as 40 Watt bulb. Clay Moulton of
Concept illustrations of Gravia depict an acrylic column a little over four feet high. The entire column glows when activated. The electricity is generated by the slow fall of a mass that spins a rotor. The resulting energy powers 10 high-output LEDs that fire into the acrylic lens, creating a diffuse light. The operation is silent and the housing is elegant and cord free — completely independent of electrical infrastructure.
Interesting2: A deadly combination of climate change, over-fishing and pollution could cause the collapse of commercial fish stocks worldwide within decades, said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Program. "You overlap all of this and you see you’re potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of world fisheries," Steiner told reporters on Friday on the fringes of a climate conference involving more than 150 nations and 100 environment ministers. Some 2.6 billion people worldwide depend on fish for protein, said a UNEP report "In Dead Water" published on Friday. Climate change has compounded previous problems such as over-fishing, as rising temperatures kill coral reefs, threaten tuna spawning grounds, and shift ocean currents and with them the plankton and small fish which underpin ocean food chains.
The question is not whether we should stop fishing but to address climate change, which is creating a degree of impact we’ve not seen before," said lead author of the UNEP report, Christian Nellemann. "We are getting more and more alarming signals of dramatic changes in the oceans. The recovery from the changes we’re making will probably take a million years." The report found the most affected areas included those responsible for half the world’s fish catch. A slowing of ocean currents as a result of climate change may over the next 100 years interrupt the transport of nutrients to the most valuable coastal fishing zones, and the flushing away of pollution.
Glenn’s TV Weather show is back online now. One day’s show will replaced with the next new days show at around 930am HST (1130am PST – 230pm EST)…Monday through Friday. Thanks to the folks at the Maui Media Lab in Paia for making this happen! I was just informed that about 100 people a day are taking the time to watch the show, thanks for your viewership!
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