The latest update to this website was at 1223pm Thursday (HST)

 

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

0.37  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
0.04  Kalawahine, Oahu
0.00  Molokai
0.00  Lanai City, Lanai
0.18  West Wailuaiki, Maui
0.48  Laupahoehoe, Big Island

The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph) as of Thursday afternoon:

24  Port Allen, Kauai – ESE
25  Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu – ESE
27  Makapulapai, Molokai – E
25  Lanai 1,  Lanai – NE
38  Na Kula, Maui – ESE
28  South Point, Big Island – ENE

Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcams on the summit of our tallest mountain Mauna Kea (~13,800 feet high) on the Big Island of Hawaii, and atop the Haleakala Crater (~10,023 feet) on Maui. 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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A cold front is northwest…high clouds approaching from the northwest

 

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Variable clouds

 

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  Showers locally…very few if any 

 

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

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Glenn’s Thursday comments:  I’m here at home in upper Kula, Maui

It’s mostly clear early this morning here at my location, with a very chilly low temperature of 46 degrees, and the relative humidity is 80%.

1035am, sunny although with quite a few streaky high cirrus clouds.

 

Weather Wit of the day:  Our National Weather Service office is being renovated and this sign was posted on the wall – “WET PAINT—BECOMING DRY LATER IN THE DAY.”

 

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Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview…as of 901am Thursday:  High pressure north of the state will maintain moderate trade winds today, with the trades easing Friday and Saturday, as the next cold front approaches from the west. Fairly dry conditions will prevail during the next few days, with light showers limited primarily to windward and mountain areas.

A weakening cold front may bring an increase in rain chances Sunday and Monday, as it moves into the western islands. A more typical and breezy trade wind pattern then looks to return by the middle of next week.

Hawaii’s Weather Details…as of 317am Thursday: Currently at the surface, a 1028 millibar high is centered about 1400 miles north, and is generating moderate trade winds across the island chain. Infrared satellite imagery shows partly to mostly cloudy conditions, with cloud coverage most prevalent in windward and mountain areas. Radar imagery shows isolated to scattered light showers affecting windward slopes and coasts, with rain free conditions in leeward areas.

High pressure to the distant north will maintain moderate trades today. A weakening cold front will approach the islands from the west Friday and Saturday, easing the trades and shifting surface winds around to the east-southeast. A period of rather dry weather is expected to persist across the islands today through Saturday, as the deeper moisture associated with the cold front will remain to the west and northwest of the state.

The GFS and ECMWF models, and AI versions remain split on the handling of the pattern evolution Sunday into early next week. Roughly half support keeping the deeper moisture west and south of the state, while the other half indicate the deeper moisture moving into at least the western islands. The current forecast shows an increase in rain chances mainly over the western islands Sunday and Monday, with a transition back to a breezy trade wind pattern Tuesday through the middle of next week. Stayed tuned for updates on the eventual outcome.

 

Here’s a near real-time Wind Profile of the Pacific Ocean – Zoom Earth – along with a Closer View of the islands / Vog map animation / 8-Day Precipitation model

 

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Hawaii’s Marine Environment…as of 331am Thursday: Fresh to strong easterly trade winds will persist through tonight, then weaken and veer out of the southeast Friday into the weekend, as a cold front approaches and moves into the area. This will allow localized land and sea breeze conditions to develop near the coasts over the weekend.

Surf along exposed north- and east-facing shores will remain elevated due to a lingering north-northeast swell. This, combined with fresh onshore trade winds, will continue to generate rough conditions along east-facing shores, prompting an extension of the advisory. A downward trend is expected Friday through the weekend as the swell eases and the trades diminish.

A fresh, short- to medium-period north-northeast swell from a gale centered around 1200 nautical miles northeast of the state, is forecast to arrive over the weekend. This new swell will support surf along exposed coasts through the weekend and into Monday. Short-period, choppy conditions are expected to return by mid-week as fresh trade winds redevelop and expand upstream of the state.

Surf along north- and west-facing shores will trend upward beginning Saturday, as a fresh west-northwest swell arrives from a gale located around 1500 nautical miles northwest of the state, south of the Aleutian Islands near the Date Line. This swell will peak early next week before gradually lowering into mid-week.

Surf along south-facing shores will remain near the seasonal average into March, but could trend up in the long range, possibly by the second week of March, due to a potential gale passing within our swell window south to southeast of New Zealand over the weekend.

 

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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 America:  There are no active tropical cyclones

 

Northeastern Pacific:  There are no active tropical cyclones

North Central Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones

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

 

Northwest Pacific Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Southwest Pacific Ocean:  

Tropical Cyclone 23P is located approximately 38 NM southwest of Port Vila, Vanuatu

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North Indian Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

South Indian Ocean: 

Tropical Cyclone 22S (Horacio) is located approximately 961 NM southeast of Port Louis, Mauritius – Final Warning

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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:  New Research Forecasts the Impacts of Fire on Birds

Up to 30% of bird diversity hotspots, places where large numbers of different bird species occur, in the western United States face threats from high-severity wildfires in the future that could eliminate critical forest habitats, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications.

Scientists from the USDA Forest Service, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and University of New Mexico combined advanced fire forecasting with bird distribution data from eBird to create the first comprehensive map showing where changing fire regimes will have the most impact on bird communities across the western United States.

In addition to identifying where forests are most at risk to severe fire, land managers can use high-resolution maps generated from the new research to pinpoint opportunities to minimize fire impacts. The forward-looking approach also enables targeted conservation planning before fires occur rather than responding after damage is done. Land managers, for example, could seek to reduce fuel loads in areas forecasted to be at risk of severe megafires.

Read more at: Cornell University