Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha paragraphs
Posted by GlennMarch 28-29 2008
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Friday:
Lihue, Kauai – 82
Honolulu, Oahu – 84
Kaneohe, Oahu – 79
Kahului, Maui – 81
Hilo, Hawaii – 78
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 83
Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at 4 p.m. Friday afternoon:
Barking Sands, Kauai – 82F
Molokai airport – 74
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:
0.19 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.33 POAMOHO 2, OAHU
0.02 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.50 WEST WAILUAIKI, MAUI
0.32 GLENWOOD, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map. A 1027 millibar high pressure system is located far to the northeast of Hawaii, which will keep moderately strong trade winds blowing…locally stronger and gusty in those usual windiest spots through Saturday.
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.
Aloha Paragraphs
Hanalei Valley, Kauai lookout…with shower
Photo Credit: flikr.com
The trade winds will boost up some into the weekend…continuing on into next week. Weather maps show a 1027 millibar high pressure system far to the northeast of Hawaii Friday evening. This high will provide moderately strong to fresh trade winds across our tropical latitudes through most of the next week. Those typically windiest areas will see somewhat stronger and gusty conditions, especially during the afternoon hours. The winds remain strong enough now, that small craft wind advisory flags are active in the channels between Molokai and Maui, and between Maui and the Big Island…and the waters along the leeward side of the Big Island.
A few windward showers will continue to ride in on the gusty trade winds, while the leeward areas will continue to be mostly dry. The night and early morning hours will find the most common windward biased showers. The leeward sides will remain quite sunny and dry during the days. The Kona coast and slopes of the Big Island, may see some late afternoon, or early evening showers falling locally. There are no organized rain areas taking aim on our islands. These favorably inclined weather circumstances are expected to continue well into the new week ahead.
It’s Friday evening as I begin writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. Other than the locally strong and gusty trade winds, and those occasional passing showers along the windward sides, our weather will remain quite nice. Looking at this looping satellite image, we can see that there are still lots of cirrus clouds coming up out of the deeper tropics to our west and southwest. We will see streaks of this high cloudiness being blown across our island skies at times over the next couple of days. ~~~ We find ourselves involved with a prolonged period of the trade winds. This trade wind weather pattern looks to be quite stable, with little day to day variation in this favorably inclined theme, well into the future. In a nutshell, nice springtime weather will prevail here in the Hawaiian Islands, with no definite end in sight at this time. ~~~ I going to see a new film this evening in Kahului, Maui, called 21 (2008)…starring Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, among many others. It’s being called a drama, about the true story of a team of gifted MIT students who learned how to turn blackjack odds to their favor, and took Vegas for millions. The credits are not raving about this film, and as a matter of fact are giving a straight C, while the viewers are giving a little more favorable B- grade. I guess I don’t have overly high hopes of being incredibly entertained, although that isn’t stopping me from going anyway. It seems that I almost always enjoy a new film, I suppose I’m easily pleased. At any rate, I’ll let you know early Saturday morning, when I’m back online with your next new narrative, what I thought. Here’s a trailer for the film, so you can formulate your own, at least, limited opinion. I hope you have a great Friday night until then! Aloha for now…Glenn.
Interesting: The U.S. West is heating up at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world and is likely to face more drought conditions in many of its fast-growing cities. By analyzing federal government temperature data, the Natural Resources Defense Council concluded that the average temperature in the 11-state Western region from 2003-07 was 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.94 degrees Celsius) higher than the historical average of the 20th century. The global average increase for the same period was 1.0 degrees Fahrenheit (0.55 degrees Celsius). In the
Most of the river’s water comes from melting snow in the mountains, and climate scientists predict hotter temperatures will reduce the snow pack and increase evaporation, the NRDC said in a statement. "Global warming is hitting the West hard," said Theo Spencer of the NRDC. "It is already taking an economic toll on the region’s tourism, recreation, skiing, hunting and fishing activities." Study author Stephen Saunders of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization said there were signs of the economic impacts throughout the West.
Interesting2: Farmer James Stirton found a odd-shaped ball last year on his 40,000 hectare property, about 500 miles west of the northern Queensland state capital of Brisbane. But Stirton only started inquiring into what the ball of metal really was, and where it had come from, in the past week. "I was riding out to check some cattle, and I came around the corner and there it was in a paddock," Stirton told Reuters on Friday. "I know a lot of about sheep and cattle but I don’t know much about satellites. But I would say it is a fuel cell off some stage of a rocket." He said the object was hollow, and covered in a carbon-fiber material. He has contacted some U.S.-based aerospace companies to try to find out what the object really is.
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