Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs

0.01 WAILUA, KAUAI
0.01 HONOLULU AIRPORT, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.01 KAHAKULOA, MAUI
0.09 KEALAKEKUA, BIG ISLAND

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1028 millibar high pressure system located far to the ENE of the islands. The high has a ridge extending SW, positioned about 250 miles north of Kauai. This pressure configuration will keep light to moderately strong trade winds blowing today into Wednesday. Here’s a Weather Map Symbol page for clarification about what all those funny weather symbols mean.

Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcam on the summit of near 14,000 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. The tallest peak on the island of Maui is the Haleakala Crater, which is near 10,000 feet in elevation. These two webcams are available during the daylight hours here in the islands…and when there’s a big moon rising just after sunset for an hour or two! Plus, during the nights and early mornings you will be able to see stars, and the sunrise too…depending upon cloud conditions.

Satellite Images – To view the cloud conditions we have here in Hawaii, please use the following satellite links, starting off with the Infrared Satellite Image of the islands to see all the clouds around the state during the day and night. This next image is one that gives close images of the islands only during the daytime hours, and is referred to as a Close-up visible image. This next image shows a larger view of the Pacific…giving perspective to the wider ranging cloud patterns in the Pacific Ocean…out from the islands. To help you keep track of where any showers may be around the islands, here’s the latest animated radar image.

Aloha Paragraphs



Waikoloa Beach on the Big Island

A high pressure system to the NE of the islands, with its associated high pressure ridge, now 300 miles to our north…will keep the trade winds blowing. The windward sides will see just a few passing showers, most of which will be light, falling during the night and early morning hours. The leeward sides will continue to be sunny during the days, as they have been this past week. All things considered, our weather will be fine, with a typical trade wind weather pattern continuing well into the upcoming week.

It’s early Monday evening here in Kula, Maui. It’s been another pleasant day here on Maui, with what I’d call very cooperative weather for all outdoor activities…which will carry forth into Tuesday. I want to add my memory to the collective memory, in regards to all the good men and women, the lost soldiers of past and present wars, who are no longer with us in body…living now “in the experience” of surviving friends and family. I just finished an unusual book, called Hell’s Angels, The strange and terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, written by Hunter S. Thompson. Interestingly enough, the Angels clashed with the peace activests during the Vietnam War. I certainly wouldn’t want to recommend the reading of this book, although I must admit, it was very entertaining writing from inside the ranks of this infamous gang of riders. A friend from work gave me a couple of cigars, which I don’t smoke. Although, and in conjunction with a vodka tonic, watching the sunset…I’ve lit that thing up and am puffing on it outside on the weather deck! At any rate, as some of you know, I was involved in the Vietnam conflict, after being drafted, and am celebrating being alive after many close brushes with death myself. I wish everyone well, just as a ping pong partner showed up from next door, so you know what I’ll be doing as soon as I plant this final period Aloha for now…Glenn.