Weather Details and Aloha Paragraphs

October 4-5 2006

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

Lihue, Kauai – 84F
Honolulu, Oahu – 86
Kaneohe, Oahu – 84
Kahului, Maui – 89
Hilo, Hawaii – 80
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 86

KAILUA-KONA – 78
KAHULUI AIRPORT – 66

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

Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a 1034 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 trade winds today…most breezy during the afternoons. Troughing aloft will soon bring our trade winds down, becoming light and variable with time. 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.

 

The dynamic coast of the Big Island
Photo Credit: flikr.com

Fairly typical early autumn trade wind weather pattern will prevail in the Hawaiian Islands. 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 during the afternoon hours locally.  The latest computer forecast models show these balmy trade winds continuing to blow across our latitudes of the north central Pacific through the rest of this week. The trade winds may get substantially lighter next week as a trough of low pressure to the NW develops.

Nothing unusual is expected in terms of rainfall for the time being, with just a few showers falling here and there.  The upper level low pressure system to our NW, with its associated trough, won’t have very much of an influence on our local weather as it turns out. We can expect just the few windward biased showers, leaving most leeward areas dry…except over the Big Island, where some showers may fall along the Kona coast and slopes. Long range outlook suggests a cold front may bring some showers later next week.

It’s early Wednesday morning here in Kula, Maui, as I start writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. It’s a quiet morning, with hardly a sound other than a few roosters in the area crowing as usual. Often I wake up before the alarm goes off, and can determine if it’s almost time to get up by whether or not the roosters are calling out yet. It’s an interesting experience sitting here at my desk, in my weather tower, with just this one small light on, so early in the morning…typing away about the weather in Hawaii. Of course in this last paragraph I give myself a little leeway to rap about other things too. This is one of those mornings that I find myself sitting for periods just staring at the monitor, waiting for something to inspire me. For some reason I keep thinking back about when I was a little boy delivering newspapers around my neighborhood early in the mornings. About how much I used to enjoy flinging the folded papers onto the porches as I rode around in the dark on my bike, with only the street lights to guide me. At that same time I was playing little league baseball, so I was really into throwing. Just like now, I was pretty much by myself in the dark, with only the man in his milk truck rounds, who would be carrying the bottles of milk to people’s doorsteps early too. It might sound a little lonely, although I’ve never really thought of it in that way. At any rate, it’s time to finish this off, so I can get out on the road, in the dark of course, for my early morning walk before getting ready for the rest of my day. I hope you have a great Wednesday! I’ll be back later with more weather updates. Aloha for now…Glenn.

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