Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennMay 20-21 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Sunday:
Lihue, Kauai – 85F
Honolulu, Oahu – 83
Kaneohe, Oahu – 84
Kahului, Maui – 89
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures early Monday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kaneohe, Oahu – 77F
Molokai airport – 66
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Monday morning:
0.71 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.08 MAKUA RANGE, OAHU
0.01 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.08 OHEO GULCH, MAUI
0.18 KEALAKEKUA, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing a ridge of high pressure having been suppressed southward, the axis of which is now over Maui County…with light winds today and Tuesday as a result. 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.
The beauty of the Garden Island of Kauai
The overlying atmosphere remains quite dry and stable, which will limit the extent and intensity of whatever showers that may fall locally. We’ll find clear skies during the mornings giving way to afternoon convective cumulus clouds forming over and around the mountains. There won’t be a major trigger for widespread showers, although there could be a few showers here and there. It will take the return of trade winds towards Wednesday to bring whatever showers that are around, back over to the windward coasts and slopes. It’s early Sunday evening here in Kula, Maui as I begin writing this sunset commentary. The last several days have been voggy, which means that the SE wind drift has brought volcanic haze over Maui County from the Big Island. I haven’t seen such a hazy reality in a long time, as it’s really very voggy indeed! During the day, before the afternoon clouds started to cling to the slopes here in Kula, I could barely see the West Maui Mountains from here! It’s exceptionally hazy, and I’m sure fairly sultry down near sea level locations. The high temperature today in Kahului, Maui was 89F degrees…which is pretty darn hot. Here in Kula, the high temperature was something more like 73 degrees. At the moment, at 545pm, it’s 67 degrees outside my weather tower. We are in for a couple more days, through Tuesday, before we see the refreshing and cooling relief from the hot and muggy weather…when the trade winds return by mid-week. ~~~ As I’ve mentioned recently, I have a friend here for a 10 day visit. Today several other friends were over, and I ended up making a nice breakfast, along with shots of espresso for all. We had strawberry papaya, apple bananas, cherimoya, crossiant (sp) to start off the day. I took them out to lunch at the Kula Lodge, and bought two big pizza’s for dinner this evening. ~~~ I’m going to go down and continue my visiting now. It’s going to be a very muted sunset this evening, with all the haze around. Monday will be a carbon copy of Sunday, as was Saturday. I hope you have a great Sunday night, and that you will consider joining me here again Monday for your next weather narrative from paradise. Aloha for now…Glenn.
Hawaii Weather Today – TV program online now. It’s not precisely like watching it on television, although it’s quite a close approximation. Each day’s new show will replace the previous days show (Monday through Friday) at some point between 10am and noon (HST) in Hawaii. If you click here, it will take you to the website where it can be viewed. I want to thank the folks at the Maui Media Lab, located in Paia, Maui for this opportunity to show what’s happening weatherwise here in Hawaiian Islands! By the way, you will need to have a quicktime viewer on your computer to receive the feed…you can get the free download here if it’s not already loaded on your machine.
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