The latest update to this website was at 1225pm Sunday (HST)

 

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

3.35  Waialae, Kauai
2.57  Schofield East, Oahu
0.09  Molokai AP, Molokai
0.25  Lanai City, Lanai
0.12  Hanaula, Maui
0.56  Pali 2, Big Island

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

15  Mana, Kauai – NNW
18  Waianae Harbor, Oahu – SE
25  Molokai AP, Molokai – S
18  Lanai 1, Lanai – SW 
33  Kahului AP, Maui – SSW
15  Kawaihae Rd, Big Island – SW

 

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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Cold front is near Kauai and moving towards Oahu…the next cold front is coming into view to the northwest

 

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Variably cloudy skies…mostly along and around the cold front 

 

 

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Showers locally…some are heavy

 

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

 

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Glenn’s Sunday comments:  I’m here at home through the winter in upper Kula, Maui

It’s clear with some clouds around the edges here in Maui County early this morning, with a low temperature of 57.5 degrees at my place, with the relative humidity 65 percent.

1227pm, it’s gotten cloudy around mountains here on Maui, while I see plenty of partly sunny conditions down closer to the coasts.

Weather Wit of the day: Probability Forecast – A whether prediction

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An interesting weather related web blog, Makua Showers…Incoming – The First Big Rain Event of the Season

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview: A light to moderate hybrid easterly to southerly weather pattern will continue for the next 7-days across the Hawaiian Islands. This weather pattern will bring cloudy, unsettled wet weather conditions to the western islands, and a drier more stable easterly weather pattern to Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii.

Two cold frontal systems will move into the western half of the state over the next 5-days, each front will then stall and diminish into a trough before drifting westward. Overall expect periods of unsettled and wet weather conditions, including locally heavy showers and thunderstorms at times, across the western half of the state lasting into next weekend.

Hawaii’s Weather Details: A combination of the local radar and satellite imagery shows a cold front currently moving through the Kauai Channel towards Oahu. A prefrontal convergence band of showers is also riding into Oahu, spreading numerous showers across the island in advance of the weakening cold front. Expect periods of showers to continue over Oahu and possibly over the island of Molokai later this morning, as the forward motion of the front stalls. Isolated thunderstorms remain in the forecast mainly along the narrow frontal boundary.

The latest weather model consensus shows this fading frontal band will stall near Oahu and Molokai later today, then weaken into a trough and then drift northwestward back over Kauai by early Monday morning. The largest shower amounts will develop along the frontal or trough axis. A Flood Watch remains in effect through Monday night for Niihau, Kauai and Oahu, as locally heavy rainfall and isolated thunderstorms will elevate convective flash flooding risks.

Another cold low pressure system with a trailing cold front will move into the Hawaii area by Monday, this new cold front will absorb the trough on Tuesday, and then move back into the area as the next cold frontal system. Models show this next cold front stalling and diminishing into a trough near Kauai and Oahu from Wednesday into Thursday, producing yet another round of numerous showers over both islands.

This unsettled light to moderate variable wind pattern will continue into next weekend, as low pressure troughing lingers just north of Hawaii.

Fire weather:  Weather conditions will remain below critical fire weather thresholds through the forecast period. Unsettled light to moderate southerly winds are forecast for the western half of the state, while more stable and drier conditions will continue over Maui and the Big Island. Periods of wet weather are forecast to last into next weekend for Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai and possibly Lanai, with much lower rainfall chances elsewhere. Temperature inversion heights near Maui and the Big Island will range from 7,000 to 8,000 feet.

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

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Hawaii’s Marine Environment: The front that moved through Kauai overnight will continue to push east through Oahu with the potential for showers and isolated thunderstorms along the front. As the front stalls and weakens, the chance for isolated thunderstorms remains over the western coastal waters through Monday. Winds are expected to weaken behind the front before becoming locally fresh out of the south Monday through mid-week as another front approaches from the west. Gentle to locally moderate south to southwest winds are forecast through the rest of the forecast period.

Long period forerunners from the west-northwest have begun to fill into the nearshore waters as the new moderate medium to long period west-northwest swell will build quickly and peak tonight at High Surf Advisory levels for north and west facing shores, before gradually declining Monday. A High Surf Advisory has been issued for select north and west facing shores as the swell rises through Monday.

Due to travel time, western shores of the Big Island may need to be expanded for Monday. A Small Craft Advisory (SCA) has also been expanded to all waters around Kauai and Oahu windward waters due to the incoming swell and also the winds along the front through Monday too. A combination of moderate northwest and north swells will keep surf elevated through the upcoming week.

East facing shores will remain tiny to small given the lack of trade winds, but shorelines exposed to the north swells may be slightly elevated through Wednesday. Surf along south facing shores will see an increase of short period wind wave chop, mainly over the western islands associated with the passing front. A slight lull is expected for waters behind the front, before the next front approaches and increases the wind waves coming from the south.

 

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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 08P…is located approximately 290 NM north of Port Vila, Vanuatu

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North and South Indian Ocean:   

South Indian Ocean:

Tropical Cyclone 07S (Bakung)…is located approximately 352 NM west-northwest of the Cocos Islands

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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: Orcas and Dolphins Seen Hunting Together For the First Time

A new study has revealed that two top ocean predators—northern resident killer whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins—join forces to find and feast on salmon off B.C., with the first video of its kind showing the two species hunting for food and suggesting they have forged a co-operative relationship that?may?provide mutual benefits.

The paper, published in the journal ?Scientific Reports, was undertaken by researchers from?UBC,? Dalhousie University,? the Leibniz?Institute and the Hakai Institute, and shows that these interactions are not just chance encounters. Instead, the species?appear to be?working together to hunt Chinook salmon in waters off B.C., where they are often seen within?metres?of each other.

“We’ve long known that resident killer whales interact with Pacific white-sided dolphins, but seeing them dive and hunt in sync with dolphins completely changes our understanding of what those encounters mean,” said?lead author Dr. Sarah Fortune, Canadian Wildlife Federation Chair in Large Whale Conservation and assistant professor in Dalhousie’s?oceanography?department.

Read more at: University of British Columbia

Dolphin with a pod of northern resident killer whales.