Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Sunday…along with the minimum temperatures Sunday:

77 – 62  Lihue, Kauai
79 – 61  Honolulu, Oahu
75 – 67  Molokai AP
79 – 68  Kahului, Maui
82 – 65  Kailua Kona
79 – 65  Hilo, Hawaii

Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands, as of Sunday evening:

0.01  Kokee, Kauai
0.01  Waianae Valley, Oahu
0.05  Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.00  Maui
0.01  Glenwood, Big Island


The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph)…as of Sunday evening:


13  Port Allen, Kauai
22  Makua range, Oahu
16  Molokai
20  Lanai
25  Kahoolawe
28  Kapalua, Maui
24  Kealakomo, 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.



Aloha Paragraphs

 

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Cool and locally gusty north to northeasterly winds,  generally dry through
Monday – winds turning warmer from the  south ahead of a cold  front
Tuesday into Wednesday, bringing limited showers…increasing
showers and gusty winds next weekend

 


~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~




Locally breezy northeast winds will continue into Monday…keeping conditions cooler than normal. Here’s the latest weather map, showing the Hawaiian Islands, and the rest of the North Pacific Ocean, along with a real-time wind profiler of the central Pacific. We find a high pressure system far west-northwest…with the tail-end of an associated high pressure ridge offshore to the northwest of the islands. At the same time, we have low pressure systems to the north and northeast…with associated cold fronts to the northwest, north, east and southeast. The counterclockwise winds around the backsides of these low pressure systems, is bringing in cool air from northerly latitudes. These winds will veer to the south and southwest later Monday into Tuesday…followed by more north to northeasterly winds in the wake of a weak cold front. We may see gusty winds Friday into next weekend ahead of, and then in the wake of another stronger cold front.

Dry weather through Monday, and then a few showers…thanks to a weak cold front Tuesday and Wednesday. Here’s the looping radar image showing a distinct lack of showers, which will remain the case through Monday. The overlying very stable air mass, the one being carried over us by the northeasterly breezes…will prevail until a weak cold front arrives. This Tuesday-Wednesday front will lack heavy rainfall, and thus…will be more of a wind shift event, than much of a shower producer. At the time of this writing, it appears that New Year’s Eve and New Years Day will have light winds and generally dry conditions. This light wind situation would mean poor smoke dispersal, particularly in those areas with heavy fireworks. A more significant cold front is forecast for the Friday-Saturday time frame, which should bring a better chance of precipitation. I’ll be back with more updates on all of the above, I hope you have a great Sunday night wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.


World-wide tropical cyclone activity:


>>> Atlantic Ocean: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.


Here’s a satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean

>>> Caribbean Sea: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.


>>> Gulf of Mexico: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.


Here’s a satellite image of the Caribbean Sea…and the Gulf of Mexico.

>>> Eastern Pacific: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2014 North Pacific hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2015. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.


Here’s a wide satellite image that covers the entire area between Mexico, out through the central Pacific…to the International Dateline.


Here’s the link to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)


>>> Central Pacific: The central north Pacific hurricane season has officially ended. Routine issuance of the tropical weather outlook will resume on June 1, 2015. During the off-season, special tropical weather outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.


Here’s a link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC)


>>> Northwest Pacific Ocean: Tropical storm 23W (Jangmi) remains active…moving across the southern Philippine Islands. Here’s a JTWC graphical track map…along with a NOAA satellite image.


>>> South Pacific Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones

>>> North and South Indian Oceans:  Tropical cyclone 04S (Kate) remains active…moving across the South Indian Ocean. Here’s a JTWC graphical track map…along with a NOAA satellite image.

Here’s a link to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

 

Interesting: East Cost “nuisance” flooding already increasing – By 2050, much of U.S. coastal areas are likely to be threatened by 30 or more days of flooding annually because of dramatically accelerating impacts from sea-level rise, according to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study.


The findings appear in a paper entitled “From the Extreme to the Mean: Acceleration and Tipping Points for Coastal Inundation due to Sea Level Rise” and follows an earlier study by the report’s co-author, William Sweet, Ph.D., a NOAA oceanographer.


Sweet and fellow NOAA scientist Joseph Park established a frequency-based benchmark for what they call “tipping points,” when so-called “nuisance flooding,” defined by NOAA as between 1 and 2 feet above local high tide, occurs 30 or more times a year.


“Coastal communities are beginning to experience sunny-day nuisance or urban flooding, much more so than in decades past,” Sweet said. “This is due to sea-level rise. Unfortunately, once impacts are noticed, they will become commonplace rather quickly. We find that in 30 to 40 years, even modest projections of global sea-level rise will increase instances of daily high-tide flooding to a point requiring an active, and potentially costly, response.”


Based on that standard, the NOAA team found that these tipping points will be met or exceeded by 2050 at most of the U.S. coastal areas studied, regardless of sea-level rise likely to occur this century. In their study, Sweet and Park used a 1.5- to 4-foot set of recent projections for global sea-level rise by 2100 — similar to the rise projections of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, but also accounting for local factors such as the settlement of land, known as subsidence.