Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha paragraphs
Posted by GlennApril 12-13 2008
Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Saturday:
Lihue, Kauai – 80
Honolulu, Oahu – 85
Kaneohe, Oahu – 80
Kahului, Maui – 81
Hilo, Hawaii – 82
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 82
Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at 5 p.m. Saturday evening:
Honolulu, Oahu – 81F
Hilo, Hawaii – 75
Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during the last 24 hours on each of the major islands, as of Saturday afternoon:
2.41 MOUNT WAIALEALE, KAUAI
0.97 OAHU FOREST NWR, OAHU
0.15 MOLOKAI
0.18 LANAI
0.00 KAHOOLAWE
2.04 PUU KUKUI, MAUI
0.47 PAHOA, BIG ISLAND
Weather Chart – Here’s the latest (automatically updated) weather map showing a 1040 millibar high pressure system is located far to the north-northwest of Hawaii Sunday night, with the weak tail-end of a cold front just north of Kauai. The winds will remain locally strong and gusty from the trade wind direction through the weekend into Monday.
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.
Aloha Paragraphs
The famous road to Hana, Maui
Photo Credit: flickr.com
The trade winds will be rather strong and gusty this weekend. Weather charts show an unusually robust 1040 millibar high pressure system moving into the area north of Hawaii now. As this big high pressure cell gets into position, our trade winds will become quite strong and gusty. Small craft wind advisories have already been hoisted in some areas, which will be extended over more of our marine waters this weekend. There are even gale warnings in the offshore waters Saturday night. The computer forecast models suggest that these trade winds will remain active into the new week ahead…although becoming much lighter and from the southeast by mid-week.
The blustery trade winds will carry passing showers onto our windward coasts and slopes. Weather maps show the tail-end of a cold front just to the north of Kauai Saturday night, which will be pushed in our direction by the strengthening trade winds. As this frontal cloud band stalls just north of Kauai, it will provide some of the moisture for the windward showers to all the islands. These showers may be locally quite generous at times, lasting into the new week.
It’s Saturday evening as I begin updating this last section of today’s narrative. As described above, we’re going to be seeing a lot of the trade winds now, although by Tuesday and Wednesday, they will be quickly getting lighter. As the winds become lighter, they will veer around to the southeast, which will help to pull up more of that volcanic haze into some parts of the state. Meanwhile, the high cirrus clouds that have kept our famous Hawaiian sunshine to a minimum lately, took a break most of Saturday. As this looping satellite image shows however, it looks like we have another batch of it that will soon be moving moving over most of the state soon.
At lower levels of the atmosphere, down here where the gusty trade winds are blowing, they will carry showery clouds our way. The bulk of this moisture will fall along the windward sides, although a few stray showers will likely find their way over to the leeward sides in places on the smaller islands.
~~~ I went to see a new film Friday evening, called Street Kings (2008), starring Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, among others. In Street Kings, a police thriller directed by David Ayer, Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice Detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner. Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlow’s supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs. Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective to track his former partners killers through the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Their determination pays off when the two Detectives track down the murderers and confront them in an attempt to bring them to justice.
I must admit that I was a little nervous about seeing this film, due to the violence that the trailers were showing. When I got into the theater though, and saw that it was pretty full, and that I wasn’t going to be sitting there alone watching this stuff, I felt reassured. As it turned out, there was certainly lots of "shoot em up" going on, but nothing that that was over the top for me. I actually enjoyed watching all the bad guy, and bad cop action. I’ve always enjoyed Keanu Reeves, after really liking him in the Matrix series of films. I would have to give a good solid B grade to this film, and could recommend it to those of you who like this kind of police and gangster stuff.
Saturday was a pretty decent day, with most of the incoming showers, as expected, landing along the windward sides of the islands. I’m up here in Kula, Maui this evening, and it’s quite cloudy, although on the warm side…with a few ever so light sprinkles falling at times. I’m sipping on a shot of high grade vodka at the moment, mixed with a Blue Sky lemon lime soda in a cobalt blue glass. I had to have a little vodka after seeing Keanu Reeves, drinking so much of it in the film I saw last night! It does taste good, and seemed like a fun thing to do on this Saturday evening.
Sunday I have to take the drive to Kihei in the morning, to the Pacific Disaster Center, my regular day job. We have a high level delegation visiting from the Philippine Islands, which my part will to give a rather extensive weather briefing. Before I leave for the drive however, Ill be back with another new weather narrative from paradise. I hope you have a great Saturday night until then! Aloha for now…Glenn.
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