The latest update to this website was at 505pm Monday (HST)

 

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

1.07  Kilohana, Kauai
1.24  Kaala, Oahu
0.57  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.24  Lanai City, Lanai
0.99  Lipoa, Maui
0.21  Kealakekua, Big Island

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

29  Barking Sands, Kauai – NNW 
29  Honolulu AP, Oahu – NW
24  Molokai AP, Molokai – NW
15  Lanai 1, Lanai – SW
27  Kahului AP, Maui – S 
29  Hokuloa, Big Island – W

 

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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The cold front will be followed by chilly air

 

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The thick band of clouds associated with the cold front is breaking up

 

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Showers associated with this cold front are falling locally around Maui County 

 

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

 

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

It’s cloudy with showers in Maui County early this morning, with a low temperature of 51.5 degrees at my place, with the relative humidity 79 percent.

115pm, it’s getting cloudier this afternoon, although it appears that the front’s showers are losing steam quickly.

230pm, it’s raining in Haiku and Maalaea here on Maui…and sprinkles just arrived here in upper Kula.

325pm, we had a brief shower here at my place, which gave way to fog and mist, and the temperature dropped to 64.5 degrees. Friends told me that there were showers in Maalaea and Haiku this afternoon.

 

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Music Video…Keola and Kapono Beamer – Honolulu City Lights

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview: A cold front pushing southeastward down the island chain will stall over the Big Island tonight. With the exception of the Big Island, post frontal conditions will allow for much drier and cooler conditions through Tuesday. Winds will veer southerly Tuesday night as the next front approaches and become breezy to locally windy on Wednesday. The front is forecast to quickly slide down the island chain Wednesday night into Thursday, bringing a line of moderate to locally heavy rainfall with it. The week should end cool and fairly dry with trades re-established.

Hawaii’s Weather Details: Latest satellite imagery shows a loosely organized band of low clouds associated with a weakening cold front draped from northeast to southwest across Maui County. Rainfall totals associated with the frontal band have been rather unimpressive with most locations on Kauai and Oahu picking up less than 0.25″. Across the western islands, post frontal, winds have already shifted northwest to north, gusting to between 20 and 30 mph. As a side note, episode 40 of Kilauea eruptions began this morning. Light winds may allow for hazy skies due to increased VOG across portions Big Island during the short term.

Through tonight, the line of scattered low clouds and moderate showers will creep towards the Big Island, as the aforementioned front begins to stall and dissipate. Elsewhere, post frontal subsidence aloft will allow for cool, stable, and dry conditions. By Tuesday, winds will veer to a more typical northeasterly flow, but dry subsident air aloft will remain. Thus, expect mostly sunny skies across smaller islands. Remnant moisture around the Big Island may still result in scattered showers island wide.

By Tuesday night, winds begin to veer southerly as the next cold front approaches the islands from the northwest. Southerly flow continues to increase in strength on Wednesday and becomes breezy to windy by mid-day. Wind speeds may meet or exceed wind advisory criteria along ridge tops and areas downslope of elevated terrain. Both the GFS and ECMWF models show moisture lifting northward over the western half of the state, ahead of the front, and developing pockets of prefrontal showers. For the eastern half of the state, dry conditions prevail.

The front will approach Kauai Wednesday evening, then quickly slide down the island chain through Thursday. Latest guidance depicts this system to be similar, but stronger, than this first one. An area of moderate to locally heavy rain will likely accompany the front, but flash flooding risk appears limited due to the speedy nature of the system. Breezy to windy south to southwest kona winds ahead of the front will veer northerly immediately behind the front, and once again bring noticeable drier and cooler weather through the first half of the weekend.

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: A strong cold front moves down the island chain from west to east, stalling near the Big Island by tonight. An extra large, long period northwest swell will quickly build surf heights along exposed north and west facing shores above warning levels. By Wednesday an even stronger cold front will quickly move through the islands, spreading fresh to strong winds across the northwestern coastal waters into Thursday. A Small Craft Advisory was issued for most coastal waters exposed to the large northwest swell and increasing winds.

A dangerous extra large, long period northwest (310-330 degree) swell will quickly build into Hawaiian Waters through the day.  Surf heights will swiftly rise above High Surf Warning (HSW) levels as this next northwest swell builds into the region. Warning level surf will spread eastward with the swell energy propagation, and that means islands such as Molokai and Maui may see a brief delay in the higher warning level surf. A HSW was issued for all exposed north and west facing shores of Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and north facing shores of Maui, which remains in effect through Tuesday afternoon. This northwest swell energy may also bring advisory level surf to west facing shores of the Big Island starting late tonight into Tuesday.

Yet another extra large northwest (310-330 degree) swell will build into the region by Thursday, potentially producing another round of warning level surf along exposed north and west facing shores lasting through Friday. This northwest swell energy will diminish into the weekend.

Surf along east facing shores will remain small through the first half of this week, due to a continued disruption in the trade wind flow. Surf heights will remain very small along south facing shores through the forecast period.

 

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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:  There are no active tropical cyclones 

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

 

South Indian Ocean: 

Tropical Cyclone 14S (Dudzai) is located approximately 676 NM south-southeast of Diego Garcia

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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

 

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