Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha paragraphs
Posted by GlennFebruary 26-27 2008
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Tuesday:
Lihue, Kauai – 78
Honolulu, Oahu – 79
Kaneohe, Oahu – 76
Kahului, Maui – 78
Hilo, Hawaii – 80
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 82
Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at 4 a.m. Tuesday morning:
Kailua-kona – 70F
Kahului, Maui – 56
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Tuesday afternoon:
0.01 MOLOAA DAIRY, KAUAI
0.02 DILLINGHAM, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.65 OHEO GULCH, MAUI
1.81 LAUPAHOEHOE, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map. A high pressure ridge extends southwest, to over the islands…from a far away high pressure center to the NE. Light and variable winds will exist Wednesday, becoming trade winds as a new high rolls into focus to our NW Thursday.
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.
Light and variable winds will remain in place through Wednesday, with trade winds expected Thursday into Friday…becoming kona winds from the south again this weekend. The Hawaiian Islands will find light and variable breezes blowing Wednesday, with daytime sea breezes near the beaches. There may be a slight drift of air coming up from the southeast direction, which will bring volcanic haze to some parts of the islands for a couple of days. The trade winds will return briefly Thursday into Friday…then shift back to the southeast and south, ahead of another cold front approaching the Aloha state this weekend.
Dry air remains in place the Hawaiian Islands behind the recent cold front, keeping rainfall to a minimum, and sunshine to a maximum along the beaches through Wednesday. Despite the dry atmospherics, there will be afternoon convective cumulus clouds over and around the mountains, although for the most part, they won’t drop many showers. The trade winds will return to some degree starting Thursday, bringing a few passing showers over the windward sides. We should see a fairly dry weekend coming up, as a cold front, that will be approaching then, stalls before arriving into our area. The computer models show good weather continuing into the first part of next week.
It’s Tuesday evening as I begin updating this last paragraph of today’s narrative. As you may gather, if you had a chance to read down through the two paragraphs above, our local Hawaiian Island weather picture will remain quite nice through the rest of this week. I should add that that will be a true statement if the computer models are providing the correct feedback in regards to the cold front that will be approaching the state fvrom the NW this weekend. I may have to do some revising along the way, especially in regards to this weekend, if that cold front doesn’t decide to stall…sneaking into the Kauai end of the state. Otherwise, I think that we’re in fine shape, with nothing too much more than a few windward showers, and a couple over and around the mountains through the rest of the week. The one wild card could be some showers moving into our area on the kona winds, especially along the leeward sides later this weekend into early next week. ~~~ Tuesday was a really nice day here in the islands, the one exception being a few showers in some places around the Big Island. Here on Maui, it was a great day, with lots of warm sunshine beaming down. Skies become a little cloudy around the edges during the afternoon hours, but I didn’t spot any showers falling. The air isn’t all that clear however, in terms of the haze that has been accumulating the last couple of days. The haze hasn’t gotten to the point where I would call it exactly thick, but then again, it is a long ways from perfectly clear either. ~~~ I’ll be back very early Wednesday morning with your next new weather narrative, I hope you have an excellent Tuesday night wherever you may be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.
Interesting: A "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
"The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance policy," Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told delegates at the opening ceremony. "It is the Noah’s Ark for securing biological diversity for future generations."
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya were among the dozens of guests who had bundled up for the ceremony inside the vault, about 425 feet deep inside a frozen mountain.
The vault will serve as a backup for hundreds of other seed banks worldwide. It has the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples from around the world and shield them from man-made and natural disasters.
Dug into the permafrost of the mountain, it has been built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear strike.
Interesting2: The fault line that spawned the 2004
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