Hawaiian Islands Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs / September 12-13, 2015

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

83 – 73  Lihue, Kauai
88 – 77  Honolulu, Oahu
88 – 72  Molokai
94 – 71  Kahului AP, Maui – broke the record Saturday…93 back in 1992
93 – 79  Kailua Kona
86 – 73  Hilo, Hawaii

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

2.63  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
4.72  Moanalua RG, Oahu
0.00  Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.00  Kahoolawe
0.09  Kula 1, Maui
2.55  Puho CS, Big Island

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

15  Moloaa Dairy, Kauai – SE
16  Kahuku, Oahu – NE
22  Molokai – ENE
23  Lanai – NE
29  Kahoolawe – ENE
21  Kahului AP, Maui – NNE
27  Upolu AP, Big Island – NE

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

Showers…some heavy northwest, west and southwest

Here’s a wind profile…of the area around the islands

Thunderstorms offshore to the west of Kauai

Heavy rains falling over the nearby ocean…
extending over the islands locally

There are showers in our area…some are heavy
looping radar image

Small Craft Advisory…leeward Big Island waters,
and the Alenuihaha Channel

~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~

Light southeasterly breezes will continue…with trade winds returning early in the new week. Here’s the latest weather map, showing the Hawaiian Islands, and the rest of the North Pacific Ocean, along with a wind profiler of the central Pacific. We find a large, moderately strong high pressure system far to the northeast of the state. At the same time we see a developing storm low pressure system northwest of Kauai. Our winds will remain light, as departing former Jimena’s presence continues to interrupt our trade wind flow a little while longer. This in turn will keep sultry conditions in place through Sunday. We’ll see southeast to easterly flowing air across the state. It may take until Monday or so, before we get back into a late summer trade wind weather pattern. The trades may give way to more southeasterly winds by next weekend…bringing back muggy and voggy weather our way then.

Locally heavy showers remain active over Kauai to Oahu…with windward showers over Maui and the Big Island. The atmosphere remains shower prone, which will continue through the rest of this weekend. This moisture will work together with an area of low pressure aloft near Kauai…bringing wet conditions our way locally. There will be flooding at times locally during the next 12- 24 hours or so. When the trade winds return soon, we’ll likely see windward biased showers returning, as they already are over the eastern islands…with fine weather along our leeward beaches. The latest models suggest that there will be off and on moisture sources riding in on the trades during the next week…with possible unsettled weather returning next weekend.

Here on Maui…It’s 550am Saturday morning, with near totally clear skies…with just light volcanic haze.

– I’m back from my weekly trip down to Paia, for my food shopping event of the week. It was hot and muggy down there near the beach, with cloudy and cooler weather up here in Kula. The recent rains have gotten the mosquito population out of control, so we bought one of those battery operated zappers. We’re having fun putting those crickers out of commission! There’s somewhere near a million of them flying around here, and we’ve probably taken care of at least 100 of them so far. 

– It’s now early evening, with dark clouds over the windward sides, which appear to be dropping showers. Here in Kula, we had a few very brief little sprinkles, nothing more, while many areas around the state experienced localized flooding rainfall. / Just after sunset here in Kula, we finally had a light shower, although it ended soon after starting.

I’ll be back with many more updates on all of the above and below, I hope you have a great Saturday night wherever you’re spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

Friday Evening Film: My usual movie friend Jeff is out of town, so I’ll be heading downtown alone to see a film. I grew up as a kid in Long Beach, California, and my Dad had a friend who owned a small Pizza restaurant in Compton, which wasn’t too far a drive for our family. So, this time around I’ve decided to see the film called Straight Outta Compton, starring O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, Paul Giamatti, Carra Patterson, Elena Goode, and Alexandra Shipp...among many others. The synopsis: In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.

This was a strong film, encompassing lots of music, emotion, and yes…violence. It wasn’t one of my favorite films by any means, although I’m glad I got an insiders view into a much different world than my own. This isn’t the type of music that I’m drawn to overly, although I can appreciate it nonetheless. It had all the necessary ingredients for our current crop of films, music, scantily clad women, drugs, and business deals gone bad. It took the viewer from good music into the music business, leading to the good life, with many exceptions…along with lots of money flowing. Big parties, bottles and bottles of expensive booze, and of course marijuana smoke filling the room. As for a grade, I’ll give it a strong B, although not quite B+ is how I saw the film. Many of the critics and viewers of this film, at least online, gave it a much better rating than I. If you have any interest…here’s the trailer.

World-wide tropical cyclone activity:

>>> Atlantic Ocean:

1.)  A tropical wave accompanied by a broad low pressure system is producing a large area of disturbed weather several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development, and a tropical depression could form during the next few days days while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…50 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…high…80 percent

2.)  A small low pressure system located about 975 miles southwest of the Azores is producing disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity. Development, if any, of this low is expected to be slow to occur while it moves west-northwestward to northwestward at about 10 mph over the next couple of days.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…10 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…10 percent

Here’s a satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean

>>> Caribbean Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones

1.)  Minimal shower and thunderstorm activity is continuing in association with the remnants of Tropical Storm Grace over the northeastern Caribbean Sea and the Greater Antilles. Upper-level winds are not expected to be favorable for redevelopment of this system during the next several days. However, brief periods of locally heavy rains and gusty winds are still possible across portions of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba, and the Bahamas during the next day or two while the system moves west-northwestward at around 15 mph.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…near 0 percent

>>> Gulf of Mexico: There are no active tropical cyclones

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

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

>>> Eastern Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones

1.)  An area of disturbed weather is located about 650 miles south of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Some slow development of this system is possible over the next few days as it moves generally northwestward at about 10 mph.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…10 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…20 percent

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: There are no active tropical cyclones

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