The latest update to this website was 909am Sunday morning (HST)

 

Air Temperatures – The following high temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Saturday…along with these low temperatures Sunday morning: 

79 – 70  Lihue AP, Kauai
82 – 70  Honolulu AP, Oahu
81 – 70  Molokai AP, Molokai
81 – 69  Kahului AP, Maui 
84 – 72  Kona AP, Hawaii
79 – 66  Hilo AP, Hawaii 

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

2.68  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
1.32  Manoa Lyon Arboretum, Oahu
0.70  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai City, Lanai
1.58  Puu Kukui, Maui
1.22  Honolii Stream, Big Island

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

28  Lihue, Kauai
44  Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu
37  Makapulapai, Molokai
29  Lanai 1, Lanai
37  Kahului AP, Maui
37  Waikoloa, Big Island

Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcam on the summit of our tallest mountain Mauna Kea (~13,800 feet high) on the Big Island of Hawaii. These webcams are available during the daylight hours here in the islands, and at night whenever there’s a big moon shining down. Also, at night you will be able to see the stars, and the sunrise and sunset too…depending upon weather conditions.

 

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Big Blue…click twice for largest version

 

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An upper level low northwest of the islands…with a trough over the islands
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 High and middle level clouds are moving over the state aloft

 

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Low clouds carried our way on the trade winds

 

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Showers locally…especially over the windward sides of the islands

 

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Kauai and Oahu (Satellite)

 

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Kauai and Oahu (Radar)

 

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Oahu and Maui County (Satellite)

 

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Oahu and Maui County (Radar)

 

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 Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, and the Big Island (Satellite)

 

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Maui County and the Big Island (Radar)

 

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Big Island (Radar)

 

Model showing precipitation through 8-days (you can slow this animation down)

 

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Please open this link to see details on any current Watches, Warnings and Advisories noted above

 

 

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~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~

 

Glenn’s Sunday comments: I’m home here in upper Kula, Maui, Hawaii

Good day everyone, I hope you have a great Sunday wherever you happen to be spending it.

523am, it’s a clear to partly cloudy morning, with a low temperature of 51.5 degrees. Looking over towards the windward side, I see lots of low level clouds which are riding in on the gusty trade wind flow.

853am, sunny up here in Kula, with some streaky high cirrus clouds beautifying our Sunday morning.

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview:  Breezy trade winds will continue into Monday, and then decrease to more moderate levels from Monday afternoon into Tuesday. An upper level disturbance passing through the islands will keep enhanced showers in the forecast through Monday. An unstable band of clouds and showers will drift into the islands on the trade winds, bringing another round of wet weather for all islands Wednesday into Thursday.

Hawaii’s Weather Details:  Satellite imagery shows a weakening upper level low slowly drifting eastward across the Hawaiian Islands. A subtropical jet stream is also set up over the islands. A Wind Advisory was issued for the highest summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, due to strong southwest winds aloft. These stronger summit winds will diminish tonight.

A high pressure system remains far north of the island chain, and will continue to produce breezy easterly trade winds across the state into Monday. By Monday afternoon trade wind speeds transition to more moderate levels as the high pressure system drifts eastward away from the Hawaiian Islands. Expect moderate easterly trade winds to continue through the rest of the week.

Wetter than normal conditions remain in the forecast for all islands through much of upcoming week. Enhanced showers will continue into Monday, as a weakening upper level disturbance drifts from west to east across the island chain. Tuesday will trend a bit drier.

An unstable band of clouds and showers, remnants of an old East Pacific cold front, will drift into the islands on the trade winds, producing wet weather for all islands from Wednesday into Thursday. An upper level trough sweeping in from north on Thursday and Friday will likely keep enhanced showers in the forecast into next weekend.

Here’s a near real-time Wind Profile of the Pacific Ocean – along with a Closer View of the islands / Here’s the latest Weather Map

Marine Environmental Details:  Consolidating high pressure far north of the islands will support fresh to strong easterly trade winds into Monday, with the typical windier waters around Maui County and the Big Island approaching near- gale force speeds. A Small Craft Advisory (SCA) for all waters will remain posted. The high will move east thereafter, leading to a gradual easing to moderate to locally strong speeds by the middle of the week.

The SCA may be pulled back over the first half of the week to the typical windier waters around Maui County and the Big Island by Tuesday. A disturbance aloft will allow for the development of a few heavier showers the next couple of days, producing periods of gusty winds and reduced visibility.

East facing shores will continue to see rough and choppy seas for at least the next several days, before declining coinciding with the weakening winds. North facing shores will decline into Monday. A reinforcing small to moderate northwest swell will move in Monday before fading into mid-week.

South facing shores will continue to see consistent pulses of swell through the week, as storm activity in the South Pacific ramps up. Forerunners have filled in and will build, with peak surf heights remaining below High Surf Advisory (HSA) heights. Reinforcing south to southwest swells filling in on Monday look to be just below HSA.

 

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World-wide Tropical Cyclone Activity

 

Atlantic Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones

Caribbean Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones

Gulf of Mexico:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Northeastern Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones

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

North Central Pacific:  There are no active tropical cyclones

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

Northwest Pacific Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Southwest Pacific Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

North and South Indian Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones

Arabian Sea:  There are no active tropical cyclones

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

>>> Here’s a link to the Pacific Disaster Center’s (PDC Global) Weather Wall website

 

Interesting: Wildfires in Wet African Forests Have Doubled in Recent Decades

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west Africa’s wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have Long been overlooked.

A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in west and central Africa’s wet, tropical forests. The number of active fires there typically doubled over 18 years, particularly in the Congo Basin. The increases are primarily due to increasingly hot, dry conditions and humans’ impact on the forests, including deforestation. The increase in forest fires is likely to continue given current climate projections, according to the study.

With fires increasing in other historically wet forests, such as the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the Amazon, wet forest fires can no longer be ignored, the researchers say.

Scientists have known for decades that wet forests in western and central Africa have fires, but because the fires tend to be much smaller than their counterparts in dry woodlands and savannas, relatively little research has been done on Africa’s tropical forest fires. This has led to uncertainty over where and when they burn, what exacerbates them and how that might shift in response to climate change.

Read more at American Geophysical Union

Image: Fires in Africa’s wet, tropical forests have doubled in recent decades, a new Geophysical Research Letters study found. Although Africa is known as “the fire continent,” larger savanna and woodland fires often dominate the region’s fire narrative and research. The photo shows a common sign about the prevention of forest fires in Ghana.