Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha paragraphs
Posted by GlennMarch 3-4 2008
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Monday:
Lihue, Kauai – 80
Honolulu, Oahu – 85
Kaneohe, Oahu – 79
Kahului, Maui – 81
Hilo, Hawaii – 83
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 81
Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at 4 a.m. Monday morning:
Kailua-kona – 72F
Kahului, Maui – 62
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 afternoon:
0.05 MOLOAA DAIRY, KAUAI
0.02 MAKUA RANGE, OAHU
0.00 MOLOKAI
0.00 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
0.00 MAUI
0.02 MOUNTAIN VIEW, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map. A high pressure ridge will be remain over or just to the north of Kauai Tuesday, moving a little further north Wednesday. Winds will remain light over Kauai and Oahu, with light to almost lower moderately strong trade winds on the Big Island end of the state through this forecast period.
Satellite and Radar 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.
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.
More great beach weather this week!
Light and variable winds, with light trade winds at times…will be the name of the game this week in the islands. The Big Island and Maui will see a light to almost moderately strong easterly trade winds, while Oahu and Kauai, closer to a high pressure ridge just to our north, will have lighter winds in general. Cold fronts moving by to the north of the state will keep a high pressure ridge close to the islands through the week. There will be volcanic haze associated with this weather pattern, although where the trade winds reach, it will help to ventilate it away to varying degrees.
The prolonged period of dry weather will stick around through this week as well. Days will start off clear to partly cloudy, with daytime heating of the islands, aided by the onshore sea breezes, starting clouds forming over and around the mountains during the afternoons. These clouds won’t drop many showers though, and will clear up again during the night. Meanwhile, back down at sea level, days will remain quite sunny and dry, with some cloudy periods during the afternoons locally. Whatever few showers that fall will spread themselves out between the upcountry areas during the afternoons, and a few along the windward sides where the trade winds are active.
It’s Monday evening as I begin writing this last paragraph of today’s narrative. February was a month characterized by gusty trade winds, and lots of showers falling along the windward sides of the islands. Now that we’re involved in such a long lasting light wind episode, with very dry conditions…it’s hard to imagine all that wind and rain of last month! Last week was extremely dry, with nothing much more than light winds blowing here in the Aloha state. There’s certainly nothing wrong with these conditions, and I’m sure vacationers to Hawaii enjoyed it very much. These kinds of weather circumstances make for excellent beach experiences. There’s a bit of high cloudiness around now too, which will more than likely give a nice colorful sunset this evening…and if it’s still around Tuesday morning, the skies may light up pink and orange again then. ~~~ The trade winds were able to reach further into the state today, than they have for a while. This in turn allowed some of the volcanic haze to clear out, although it’s not all gone just yet. Hopefully the trade winds will blow again Tuesday, so that we can see some further improvement of our local air visibilities then. ~~~ On a personal note, I went to see my Dermatologist, Dr. George Martin this afternoon, and got a clean bill of health. As I’ve spent about a trillion too many hours in the sunshine during my life, having lived by the beach the whole time, and being an avid surfer much of those years, this is great news! ~~~ I hope everyone has a wonderful Monday night, wherever you happen to be spending it! I’ll be back with your next new weather narrative from our lovely Hawaiian Islands very early Tuesday morning. Aloha for now…Glenn.
Interesting: South Korea closed schools on Monday and its factories producing memory chips stepped up safeguards, as a choking pall of sand mixed with toxic dust from China covered most of the country and other parts of Asia. The annual "yellow dust" spring storms, which originate in China’s Gobi Desert before sweeping south to envelop the Korean peninsula and parts of Japan, are blamed for scores of deaths and billions of dollars in damage every year in South Korea. It issued a yellow dust warning at the weekend. On Monday, school districts in southeastern regions urged parents to keep kindergarten and elementary school children at home. "We advised the closure because kindergarten, primary school students have weaker immune systems," said Min Eyu-gi, an education official in Busan. An official with the Meteorological Administration said the first major storm of the season, which has also hit parts of
Interesting2: Anti-whaling activists clashed with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean on Monday, prompting a diplomatic complaint from Tokyo to Canberra and a rebuke for the activists from the Australian government. Members of the hardline Sea Shepherd group threw bottles and containers of foul-smelling substances at the Japanese factory ship the Nisshin Maru as part of the organization’s campaign to disrupt Japan’s annual whale hunt.
Interesting3: A survey of 1000 people, released Monday by the National Sleep Foundation, found participants average six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night on weeknights, even though they estimated they’d need roughly another 40 minutes of sleep to be at their best. Roughly one-third of those surveyed said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work in the past month. While sleepy workers know they’re not performing as well as they could during the day, work is what’s keeping them up nights, according to the survey, which found workdays are getting longer and time spent working from home averages close to four-and-a-half hours each week. It seems people are also trying to squeeze in more time for themselves and their families, even if it means less sleep. The average wake up is at 5:35 a.m. and it’s followed by about two hours and 15 minutes at home before heading out to work, according to the survey. Average bedtime is 10:53.
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