Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

October 3-4 2006

Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across Hawaii Tuesday:

Lihue, Kauai – 84F
Honolulu, Oahu – 86
Kaneohe, Oahu – 85
Kahului, Maui – 89
Hilo, Hawaii – 82
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85

KAILUA-KONA – 77
HILO AIRPORT – 70

Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours (as of Wednesday morning) on each of the major islands:

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1032 millibar high pressure center located far to the NE of the Hawaiian Islands. This high pressure cell, with its associated ridge, will give us light to moderately strong trade winds through the rest of this week…most breezy during the afternoons.  Here’s a Weather Map Symbol page for clarification about what all those weather symbols mean on the map.

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.

Tropical Cyclone Activity – The eastern Pacific hurricane season runs from May 15 through November 30…while the central Pacific (where Hawaii is) runs from June 1 through November 30. The latest storm information for the eastern Pacific can be found by clicking here. A storm tracking map for both the central and eastern areas can be found by clicking here . For the central Pacific, the latest storm information can be found by clicking here.

 

I suppose this would do in a pinch!
Photo Credit: flikr.com

The central north Pacific has lots of things going on now…in terms of weather features. Weather maps show a high pressure system located far to the NE of our Hawaiian Islands. This high pressure cell will keep our winds on the light to moderate side, quite breezy along the windward sides during the afternoon hours locally. There are also several upper lows and troughs in the vicinity, although they don’t seem to being having much direction influence on us…allowing less high clouds, with sunnier skies today into Wednesday.

An upper level low pressure system to the NW of Kauai, which has kept high clouds over us lately, is edging away today. Satellite images show the upper winds carrying less cirrus and altocumulus clouds in our direction now. There were some thunderstorms showing up over the ocean near Kauai, which may bring some locally heavy showers there. Otherwise, just the few windward biased showers, leaving most leeward areas dry…except over the Big Island and the Haleakala slopes on Maui, where some showers may fall too.

It’s early Tuesday evening here in Kula, Maui, as I start writing this post sunset commentary.   I was home to witness the very quick sunset, although it was rather non descript at best…just a fleeting smear of orange in the gray clouds hugging the far horizon to our west. Although, let’s face it…any sunset here in Hawaii is nothing to miss!  The high clouds, which have been around the last several, several days, that have been providing the sensational sunsets, are gone now. This of course opened up lots of sky space for sunnier weather today, that’s for sure! The lighting though is starting to give me that autumn feeling now, which I just love. By the way, I’d better start giving you a heads up, that I’ll be going away on vacation a little later this month. I have no one to take over this year, as my friend Hans Rosendal, who has taken over the reins the last couple of vacations, is unavailable this time around. So, there will be a three week period when I’ll be away from my computer.  I dislike leaving this website unattended to for so long, but that’s the way it’s turning out. It looks like there is no one to take over my TV show either, so that will be void a presenter as well. As you can see, I’m a one man weather show and website organization. Let’s get back to the moment now, and from here I’d like to wish you all a very good Tuesday night! I’ll be back very early Wednesday morning with your next weather narrative presentation. Aloha for now…Glenn.

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