Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha Paragraphs

0.93 WAINIHA, KAUAI
1.29 KAMEHAME, OAHU
0.02 MOLOKAI
0.01 LANAI
0.12 KAHOOLAWE
0.31 OHEO GULCH, MAUI
2.31 PALI 2, BIG ISLAND

Weather Chart – A high pressure area far to the NE has sent a ridge towards us to the NE of the Aloha state. This ridge will bring back NE through easterly trade winds today into Tuesday…becoming increasingly stronger. Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map. 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.

Aloha Paragraphs


Moving back into the good stuff…
  photo credit: Konaboy

The long lasting Kona low pressure system is steadily moving away to the north now. There will still be a few problem areas, especially around the Big Island, in terms of spotty heavy showers around Sunday afternoon into the evening along the leeward slopes, although most areas will see less rain and more sunshine for a change. This trend will continue into Monday, and last through most of the new week coming up. As a matter of fact, the weather as we approach our new work week…looks delightful!

The long lasting south to southwest Kona winds will gradually give way to northeast winds, which will soon become our more normal easterly trade winds. As the winds swing around to the NE and east, the bias for showers will gradually shift over to the NE and east facing slopes and coasts…which could become quite frequent during the first few days of the new week. The leeward sides, which were taking the brunt of the recent rainy weather, will quickly dry out, and get back to being their sunny selves!

It’s Sunday evening here in the islands, as I begin writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. As noted in the paragraphs above, we’re finally making some headway back into our classically warm late autumn weather conditions, with the beginning of the winter season just up ahead. It’s been quite a long haul, as we worked our way through the recent extended period of rainy and windy weather. I see nothing but fine weather prospects on the horizon for the Hawaiian Islands for a change! I should point out however, that as the trade winds filter back into our weather picture soon, they will be carrying at least some amount of passing showers. In contrast, (yes, in know that’s a preposition) the leeward sides will soon be basking in warm Hawaiian sunshine, bringing the afternoon high temperatures back up into the low to middle 80F’s! ~~~ In most areas Sunday, there was a distinctive break in the weather, with drier conditions showing up nicely. I see nothing but further improvement as we move forward from here, other than those increasingly frequent showers along the windward coasts and slopes. The thing is that, there’s quite a bit of moisture still evident to the east of the state, and with the trade winds returning Monday, these showery clouds may very well get carried our way. ~~~ I just emptied my rain gauge this evening, taking a total of the entire storm period up here on my weather deck in Kula, Maui, and found 6.52 inches. There were some gauges around the state that for sure ended up with close to, or over 20". My neighbor just told me that atop the Haleakala Crater, up at Science City, there were wind gusts to 120 mph…which blew open the doors on some of the observatories up there! Now that I think about it, I don’t remember a storm of this caliber since perhaps the 1980 Kona storm that lashed the islands 27 years ago. So perhaps we will end up calling this storm a "once in a quarter century event".  I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who used my website for your source of weather, among others, during this last week of exceeding wild weather. Is this a harbringer of the extreme weather events that are expected due to the shifting weather patterns around the world now? Who knows, although one thing that we know for sure, is that I will be back with your next tropical weather narrative come early Monday morning, have a good night. Aloha for now, Glenn.

Here’s a link to the top of snowy Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, its quite a sight during the daytime hours!

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