Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Monday…along with the minimums Monday:
81 – 73 Lihue, Kauai
83 – 73 Honolulu, Oahu
82 – 67 Molokai
85 – 64 Kahului AP, Maui
84 – 69 Hilo, Hawaii
Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands, as of Monday evening:
3.34 Mount Waialeale, Kauai
1.07 Poamoho RG 1, Oahu
0.19 Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00 Lanai
0.07 Kahoolawe
0.16 Hana AP, Maui
3.37 Saddle Quarry, Big Island
The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph)…as of Monday evening:
17 Port Allen, Kauai – SE
15 Kii, Oahu – SE
20 Molokai – ESE
18 Lanai – NE
27 Kahoolawe – E
13 Kaupo Gap, Maui – SE
17 South Point, Big Island – NNW
Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live web cam on the summit of near 13,800 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. This web cam is available during the daylight hours here in the islands…and when there’s a big moon shining down during the night at times. Plus, during the nights you will be able to see stars, and the sunrise and sunset too… depending upon weather conditions.
Aloha Paragraphs
We see a couple of cold fronts to the northwest
Here’s a wind profile…of the offshore waters
around the islands – with a closer view
High clouds offshore southwest through southeast
Clear to partly cloudy…with some cloudy areas
Showers falling locally, although drier now – looping radar image
~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~
Trade winds on a weakening trend…and veering southeast. Here’s the latest weather map, showing the Hawaiian Islands, and the rest of the North Pacific Ocean. We find a high pressure system to our northeast. At the same time, we find several gale and storm low pressure systems far to our north. The winds will continue, although trending lighter from the southeast. We have small craft wind advisories over many of the coasts and channels around the state, although they should be dropped by Tuesday. We’ll find a cold front prompting our trade wind speeds to relax into the lighter realms, then bouncing back a little Wednesday and Thursday. The tail-end of this cold front should brush Kauai later Tuesday into Wednesday. It appears that we may see chilly northerly winds arriving New Year’s Day into the weekend…behind another cold front. Generally light to moderately strong trade winds will prevail during the first half of next week.
Showers will fall locally along our windward sides…although less frequently now. As the trade winds continue, they’ll carry moisture our way at times. The windward sides will see passing showers, although they will be much less active now than over the last several days. In sum, trade winds easing up, along with shower activity, with clouds increasing during the afternoons over the leeward slopes while the winds are lighter…followed by windward clouds and a few showers when light to moderately strong trade winds return mid-week. Lighter winds will again return Friday ahead of the next cold front, arriving over Kauai and Oahu Friday, and pushing across Maui County and the Big Island that night. This front won’t be a big deal in terms of rainfall, having limited moisture, and very little upper level support to work with.
Here in Maui County…It’s mostly clear across the island this morning before sunrise, although with clouds and a few showers passing along our windward sides. Here in upcountry Kula, it’s calm and clear…with an air temperature of 51.2F degrees at 640am. The temperature in contrast was 64 degrees down near sea level in Kahului, with 75 out in Hana, 72 at both Kapalua and Maalaea Bay…and 37 atop the Haleakala Crater at the same time. Meanwhile, Kahoolawe’s top elevation was 66 degrees, while Lanai City was 65 degrees and mostly cloudy.
– Going on sunset now, with clouds and fog and a light mist here in Kula. I can see some faint sunshine down in the central valley, along with what looks a bit like a dose of volcanic haze too. The air temperature was 67.8 at 545pm here at my weather tower, with mostly sunny skies and 76 at the Molokai airport, 70 on Kahoolawe, 73 on Lanai, 79 and mostly sunny at Kahului, 77 at Kapalua, 75 out in Hana, and 46 up at the summit of the Haleakala Crater…all at about the same time.
I’ll be back with many more updates on all of the above and below, I hope you have a great Monday night wherever you’re spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn
World-wide tropical cyclone activity:
>>> Atlantic Ocean: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2016. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued if conditions warrant.
Here’s a satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean
>>> Caribbean Sea: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2016. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued if conditions warrant.
>>> Gulf of Mexico: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on June 1, 2016. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued if conditions warrant.
Here’s a satellite image of the Caribbean Sea…and the Gulf of Mexico
Here’s the link to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)
>>> Eastern Pacific: The last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2015 North Pacific hurricane season…has occurred. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2016. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued if conditions warrant.
Here’s a wide satellite image that covers the entire area between Mexico, out through the central Pacific…to the International Dateline.
Here’s the link to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)
>>> Central Pacific: The central north Pacific hurricane season has officially ended. Routine issuance of the tropical weather outlook will resume on June 1, 2016. During the off-season, special tropical weather outlooks will be issued if conditions warrant.
Here’s a link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC)
>>> South Pacific Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones
>>> North and South Indian Oceans / Arabian Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones
Here’s a link to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)
Interesting: Study looks into past climate in Oregon’s Coast Range – Lush greenery rich in Douglas fir and hemlock trees covers the Triangle Lake valley of the Oregon Coast Range. Today, however, geologists across the country are more focused on sediment samples dating back 50,000 years that were dug up by University of Oregon scientists.
The sediment indicates that the mountainous region, which was not covered in glaciers during the last ice age, was a frost-covered grassy landscape that endured erosion rates at least 2.5 higher than today’s, an eight-member team reports in a paper in the journal Science Advances.
The research raises the possibility that non-glaciated terrain across North America was similar to that found 40 miles northwest of Eugene. The findings also suggest that mean annual temperatures were about 11 degrees Celsius cooler than modern temperatures, and that frost cracking — not rainfall — drove erosion as the region began emerging out of the Last Glacial Maximum.
Core samples containing telling signatures of frost were drilled up from 200 feet below today’s surface near Little Lake. The valley, also home to the much larger Triangle Lake, is the result of a massive landslide 50,000 years ago. Eroding sediment then continued to fill a large lake and transform the valley floor.
A work crew operates a drilling rig near Little Lake in the Oregon Coast Range, where researchers pulled up a buried archive of sediment that helped them detail climate changes dating to a massive landslide 50,000 years ago. The location is just west of the community of Triangle Lake that sits on the edge of a larger lake with that name. The valley is about 40 miles northwest of Eugene, Oregon.
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