Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs
Posted by GlennJuly 25-26 2007
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Wednesday:
Lihue, Kauai – 85F
Honolulu, Oahu – 89
Kaneohe, Oahu – 84
Kahului, Maui – 89
Hilo, Hawaii – 86
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 85
Temperatures early Thursday morning ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at the 4 a.m. hour:
Kailua-kona – 76F
Hilo, Hawaii – 70
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Thursday morning:
0.21 WAILUA, KAUAI
0.85 OAHU FOREST NWR, OAHU
0.07 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.72 PUU KUKUI, MAUI
0.25 KEALAKEKUA, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map…showing high pressure systems located to the NNW and NE Hawaii Thursday. The trade winds will remain light to moderately strong over Hawaii’s coastal waters…although locally stronger and gusty in those usual windiest locations through Friday. 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.
Tropical Cyclone activity in the eastern and central Pacific – Here’s the latest information coming out of the National Hurricane Center, covering the eastern north Pacific. You can find the latest tropical cyclone information for the central north Pacific (where Hawaii is located) by clicking on this link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Here’s a tracking map covering both the eastern and central Pacific Ocean.
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.
Kona coast on the Big Island
No end in sight for the trade winds blowing across the Hawaiian Islands. Weather maps show well established high pressure systems located to the north and NE of the Aloha state. These high pressure cells will keep the trade winds blowing across our area of the north central Pacific through the rest of this week…although starting to get lighter Sunday into the middle of next week. The small craft wind advisories remain in place over the channels in the southern part of the state, as well as those windiest coastal areas on Maui and the Big Island.
The windward sides of all the islands will see the usual few passing showers, most frequent during the night and early morning hours. The computer forecast models continue to show an upper level low pressure system moving over, or near the state soon. As this upper air feature gets closer, there will likely be an increase in showers along the windward sides…and perhaps the leeward slopes on Maui and the Big Island during the afternoon hours. This increase in moisture will be of benefit in helping to ease the ongoing drought conditions that prevail in those driest areas.
It’s Wednesday here in the islands, as I begin writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. The prospect of more showers moving into the state is good news. As some of you know, many of the showers that arrived recently, with the passage of tropical depression Cosme, fell in areas that had been dry for a long time. So, things are heading in the right direction here, with what I would consider less severe drought conditions in general now. It can be difficult to coax showers in our direction during our long hot summer months! ~~~ There’s a tropical storm named Dalila over in the eastern Pacific at this time, although at last report it was moving over cooler sea water temperatures, and as a result moving into the dissipating stage of its life cycle. It won’t be migrating into our central Pacific region, and poses no threat to our Hawaiian Islands.
~~~ By the way, the increase in showers locally around the islands, noted above, won’t be bothering any of our visitors, at least those that are staying along the leeward beaches, where most of the resorts are located. Those showers, enhanced by the upper low pressure system, will rmain fixed for the most part, along the windward north and east facing coasts and slopes. Then too, there could be some increase in afternoon cloudiness, with shower spillage along both the Haleakala slopes on Maui, and along the Kona slopes on the Big Island as well. ~~~ I hope everyone has a great Wednesday night! I’ll be back early Thursday morning with your next weather narrative. Aloha for now…Glenn.
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