Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Sunday:   

Lihue, Kauai –                     74  
Honolulu airport, Oahu –      79   
Kaneohe, Oahu –                 M
Molokai airport –                 81
Kahului airport, Maui –          82
Kona airport –                  83
Hilo airport, Hawaii –           80

Air Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level – and on the highest mountain tops…as of 5pm Sunday afternoon:

Kahului, Maui – 79
Princeville, Kauai – 68

Haleakala Crater –  46 (near 10,000 feet on Maui)
Mauna Kea –         37 (near 13,800 feet on the Big Island)

Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live web cam on the summit of near 13,800 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. This web cam is available during the daylight hours here in the islands…and when there’s a big moon shining down during the night at times. Plus, during the nights you will be able to see stars, and the sunrise and sunset too…depending upon weather conditions. Here's the Haleakala Crater webcam on Maui…although this webcam is often not working correctly.

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Windward biased showers, windy…high cirrus clouds

Wind Advisory statewide through 6pm Monday

As this weather map shows, we have a strong near 1036 millibar high pressure system to the northwest of the islands. At the same time we have a trough of low pressure to the west of the state…moving away. Our winds will be locally strong and gusty trades….continuing into the new week ahead. 

The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph), along with directions Sunday evening:

31                 Lihue, Kauai – NE
32                 Kuaokala, Oahu – NE
36                 Molokai – ENE
46                 Kahoolawe – NE
38                 Kahului, Maui – NE
31                 Lanai – NE
37                 Pali 2, Big Island – NE

We can use the following links to see what’s going on in our area of the north central Pacific Ocean Sunday evening.  Looking at this NOAA satellite picture we see lots of clouds surrounding the islands, especially to the west and northwest, and to the southeast of the Big Island. We can use this looping satellite image to see a counterclockwise rotating upper level low pressure system to the west-northwest of Kauai, with thunderstorms near its center…and to its south. At the same time, we have clouds to the south in places too…especially south of the state. Checking out this looping radar image we see a few showers falling generally over the ocean, with some being carried into the windward sides on the strong and gusty trade winds…with the most notable shower areas north of Oahu, and coming into Kauai, associated with an old frontal cloud band dropping south into the state. 

Here are the 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands as of Sunday evening:
 
2.36              Mount Waialeale, Kauai
0.99               Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu
0.00               Molokai
0.00               Kahoolawe
0.23               Puu Kukui, Maui
0.36               Kawainui Stream, Big Island  

Sunset Commentary: Our weather here in the islands was pleasant today, albeit on the windy side. Satellite imagery shows plenty of clouds over the ocean in most directions, although radar images show little in the way of associated showers…with the bulk of the showers affecting Oahu and Kauai at the time of this writing. These showers were associated with an old frontal cloud band, which will drop southward into the state tonight into Monday. The main thing today was the gusty trade winds, which were the most noticeable feature, especially near our beaches. These trade winds will begin to gradually ease up a little as we get into the new week, although will remain active. We may see an upturn in clouds and windward biased showers late tonight, which may hang on into Tuesday morning. The leeward sides may find a few showers being carried there by the strong trade wind flow, although will be much drier compared to the north and east sides of the islands.

This past Friday evening I went to see the film Wanderlust, starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, which looked kind of cute. The synopsis: rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple experiments with living on a rural commune where free love rules. The film rating website rotten tomatoes is giving this film a 60 rating out of 100, which isn't too bad. I was willing to give it a try, after a very long week of heavy duty weather coverage, and as it turned out, it was pleasant to just relax at the theater, a full theater I might add. I enjoyed the film, and could relate quite well, as I'm still a hippy at heart…and actually have a lifestyle that is rather hippy-like as well.  I love nature and the weather, and eat healthy food, and live in a rural area, I suppose these are a few of the major things that qualify a person to be a hippy…right? I found the film to be rather endearing in some ways, with generally good acting, especially by the two main stars. Jennifer Aniston is so darn cute, and Paul Rudd was kind of a klutz, but funny too. As for a grade, if I must go that far with this kind of light hearted film, well…I guess a B would work here. Here's a trailer in case you're interested in taking a peek.

Here in Kula, Maui at 530pm HST, we had light breezes, with partly cloudy skies, most of which were the high cirrus clouds…and a warm air temperature of 75.6F degrees. As I mentioned above, the main weather feature that will prevail tonight into Monday, will be the robust trade winds. Winds around the state today, at least in the gust department, reaching up into the 30 mph range, with a few of them pushing past the 40 mph mark. Meanwhile, there's an  area of high cirrus clouds moving over the islands from the west, which are beautiful to see, and provided great sunrise colors this morning, and should again this evening at sunset! As for rainfall, we will see some increase in windward showers tonight into Monday…again associated with an old frontal cloud band dropping south into the state. The winds are strong enough, that some of these showers will spray their way over into the leeward sides on the smaller islands. Then, by say Tuesday or so, our weather should turn drier, perhaps much drier, providing very pleasant weather for most of the rest of the new week. ~~~ I'll be back again early Monday morning with your next new weather narrative from paradise. I hope you have a great Sunday night until then! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Extra: Sometimes I have to brag a little, not often, other than those slips about my fast walks an all, but this time I'm impressed about something!  I've been looking at the number of page views of this website so far this month, and I was amazed that at the moment, it showed 317,369! Oh my gosh, that's heading towards a 1/3 of a million! There have been 2,977 google ad clicks at the same time, which is good, as that's partly how I earn a few bucks for my time and effort at keeping Hawaii Weather Today updated each day, actually…many many times each day.  I couldn't help sharing these numbers with you, as again, we're only 11 days into the month. By the way, last month this website had a total of 388,252 page views, with 3,065 google ad clicks.  It's more than the numbers though, its that "I write and you read", that's the real beauty of this weather relationship that we have going on here! It's that you are interested in the weather too, just as I am, and we get the job done together so well. Thank you, thank you very much for making this website…at least one of your weather information sources! Aloha, Glenn.