Air Temperatures – The following high temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Saturday…along with the low temperatures Saturday:
84 – 74 Lihue, Kauai
87 – 77 Honolulu, Oahu
80 – 75 Molokai AP
83 – 73 Kahului AP, Maui
85 – 76 Kailua Kona
84 – 74 Hilo AP, Hawaii
Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands Saturday evening:
1.01 Mount Waialeale, Kauai
1.67 Manoa Lyon Arboretum, Oahu
3.11 Molokai
0.08 Lanai
0.02 Kahoolawe
7.58 Puu Kukui, Maui
3.00 Saddle Quarry, Big Island
The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph) Saturday evening:
32 Port Allen, Kauai
35 Oahu Forest NWR, Oahu
27 Molokai
31 Lanai
36 Kahoolawe
31 Maalaea Bay, Maui
30 Waikoloa, Big Island
Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcam on the summit of our tallest mountain Mauna Kea (nearly 13,800 feet high) on the Big Island of Hawaii. Here’s the webcam for the 10,000+ feet high Haleakala Crater on Maui. These webcams are available during the daylight hours here in the islands, and at night whenever there’s a big moon shining down. Also, at night you will be able to see the stars, and the sunrise and sunset too…depending upon weather conditions.
Aloha Paragraphs
What’s left of former TC Fabio is evident far east-northeast of Hawaii
(click to enlarge)
Thunderstorms well south-southeast
Clear to partly cloudy…with cloudy areas locally
Showers locally and offshore…some are heavy
Looping image
Small Craft Advisory…all coastal and channel waters
High Surf Advisory…east shores of all the islands
~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~
Broad Brush Overview: The current trade wind pattern, with clouds and showers focusing across windward and mountain areas will continue. Enhanced showers and increased shower coverage will persist, as a weak surface trough of low pressure moves across the islands. A band of moisture will affect windward portions of Kauai and Oahu Sunday as well. Trade winds will decrease slightly Monday and Tuesday…picking up later in the week.
Details: Off and on wet conditions are expected for much of the state. The gusty trade winds will persist as high pressure remains anchored far north. Showers should be active along windward slopes, with some passing showers across leeward sections from Maui to Kauai. The combination of this moisture and a weak trough, will lead to spotty heavy showers and perhaps a thunderstorm on the Big Island…mainly within the volcanic plume in Puna and over the interior.
Looking Ahead: These rather gusty trade winds will decrease a bit Sunday and Monday. As the current area of enhanced moisture clears the state from east to west. A separate band of low level moisture, currently well north of the state, will move over the Kauai and perhaps Oahu side of the state. A drier and more stable trade wind flow will settle over our area by the middle of next week…with moderate to locally strong trade winds.
Here’s a near real-time Wind Profile of the Pacific Ocean – along with a Closer View of the islands / Here’s the latest Weather Map / Here’s the latest Vog Forecast Animation / Here’s the Vog Information website
Marine Environmental Conditions: Strong trade winds combined with both east and south swells will maintain rough boating conditions through the weekend. Winds and seas should drop below advisory levels across most or all waters Monday. Advisory-level winds may return to the typically windy areas around Maui County and the Big Island Tuesday or Wednesday.
Along east facing shores, look for a mixture of swells from former Hurricane Fabio, and trade wind swells to generate rough surf, and the High Surf Advisory remains in effect through Sunday morning.
World-wide Tropical Cyclone Activity
Here’s the Saturday Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) Weather Wall Presentation covering Tropical Cyclones Beryl and 03L
Here’s the Saturday Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) Weather Wall Presentation covering Typhoon 10W (Maria)
>>> Atlantic Ocean:
Tropical Storm 02L (Beryl)
Tropical Depression 03L
>>> Caribbean Sea: No active tropical cyclones
>>> Gulf of Mexico: No active tropical cyclones
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
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: No active tropical cyclones
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: No active tropical cyclones
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
Here’s a link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC)
>>> Northwest Pacific Ocean:
Typhoon 10W (Maria)
>>> South Pacific Ocean: No active tropical cyclones
>>> North and South Indian Oceans / Arabian Sea: No active tropical cyclones
Here’s a link to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)
Interesting: Traces of ‘Sonic Boom’ Meteorites Found in the Ocean – The first mission designed to hunt a meteorite that crashed into the ocean has now discovered what may be tiny fragments of the meteorite’s crust, researchers say.
On March 7, three National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather stations detected the fall of a meteorite about 15.5 miles off the coast of Washington state. “The fall was widely seen around local areas and widely heard in the local area — it came with some loud sonic booms,” Marc Fries, the cosmic dust curator for NASA said.
Fries estimated this fall might yield about 4,400 lbs. of meteorites. He also calculated the largest meteorite might weigh about 9.7 lbs. and have a diameter of about 5 inches.
“This is the largest meteorite fall I’ve seen in 20-plus years of radar data,” Fries said.
The details the scientists had regarding the fall suggested the meteorite was unusually strong, Fries said. This knowledge, in combination with the fact the meteorite landed on a soft seafloor as opposed to dry land, suggested this ocean fall might yield large, relatively intact meteorites for scientists to study.
Until now, scientists had never intentionally recovered a meteorite from the ocean, Fries said. In the past, researchers had accidentally discovered a couple of meteorites from drilling samples taken from the seafloor, he noted. However, this latest endeavor is the “first intentional search for meteorites from the ocean,” Fries said.
Ocean Exploration Trust, a scientific research nonprofit organization, worked with scientists from NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, NASA and the University of Washington to locate any meteorites from this fall.
On July 1, the Exploration Vessel Nautilus investigated about 0.4 square mile of water in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, located off the coast of Washington state, sailing about 330 feet above the seafloor. The ship used multi-beam sonar to map the seafloor, but the team “didn’t really see any smoking-gun signature of a meteorite, any change to the texture of the seafloor,” Nicole Raineault, leader of the expedition and the vice president of exploration and science operations at the Ocean Exploration Trust.
On July 2, the scientists deployed two remote-controlled submarines — the Hercules and the Argus — to investigate the seafloor. If the researchers saw anything interesting through the cameras of these remotely operated vehicles, they directed the robots to pick them up using either magnets or a suction pump.
The researchers did not spot any meteorites, as the seafloor was very soft, “and in all likelihood, any meteorites sank into the seafloor,” Fries said.
However, after returning to the lab and spending 6 hours analyzing sediment, the team identified what seemed to be meteorite fragments in the last sample they had gathered, Fries said. “So far, we see two small fragments,” he said.
“The meteorite fragments are small, melted pieces of rock,” Fries said. Each about 0.08 to 0.12 inches large, they likely came “from the outside of a meteorite. When a meteor enters the atmosphere, it accrues what’s called a fusion crust — “you have flash-melting of the rock, which coats the rock like pottery glaze,” he said.
The reason Fries thinks these fragments are from the recent meteorite fall is that they are “basically made of glass, and such flash-melted glassy materials do not tend to last long in seawater.” Moreover, these fragments “looked like they came from a small pit in the seafloor,” Fries said. “It’s some evidence that they came from something that fell.”
Now, Fries and his colleagues will analyze these fragments in the lab to see what they are made of. “If they are meteoric in origin, we can tell what kind of meteorite they came from,” he said.
Additional smaller meteorite fragments may lurk in sediment that the researchers collected. “We regularly deal with specks naked to the eye,” Fries said. “We can deal with smaller things.”
There are no plans to return to the site to look for more meteorite fragments, but, Fries said, “I certainly wouldn’t mind going.”
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Susanna Henderson Says:
Glen
Always Enjoy your weather web-site.
Wonderng what that beautiful photo is in this morning’s report.
Looks like the windward side of the Pali. but that lovely road???
~~~ Hi Susanna, thanks for your comment.
This is a particularly beautiful picture, I agree. It happens to be along the windward side of Oahu, looking up into the Koolau Mountains…showing those rain produced gullies and ridges. That road looks like a perfect skateboarding opportunity to me!
Aloha, Glenn