![]() This SCA may need to be extended for all or portions of the marine area into the weekend. A Small Craft Advisory (SCA) is now in effect for all coastal waters through 6pm Friday. Marine Environmental Conditions: High pressure north of the state will keep strong to near Gale force trade winds blowing through Saturday. 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 / Vog Model Forecast Shower activity will decrease into brief showers over windward areas, favoring the overnight to early morning hours. Look for decreasing trade wind speeds into the moderate range with more stable conditions as the ridge axis moves closer to the state. Long range guidance shows the forward motion of the frontal cloud band stalling just north of the state by Wednesday, with little impact on precipitation. The high pressure ridge moves closer to the islands and weakens as a weakening cold front approaches from the north early next week. Some wind favored areas over Maui and Hawaii Counties are approaching Wind Advisory thresholds, and may exceed these thresholds Friday into the weekend. Easterly trade winds will continue to blow in the breezy to locally windy range into Sunday. The trade wind speeds will strengthen through Friday, as the subtropical ridge builds in north of the island chain.Ī strong high pressure system will remain in place north of the state through the weekend. Hawaii’s Weather Details: Satellite pictures show more stable clouds just east of Hawaii, drifting towards the islands on the gusty trade winds. We see high pressure systems north, and a low pressure trough of low pressure west through northwest of the state Shower trends will decrease as the frontal band stalls north of the state…and the ridge moves closer to the islands. Trade wind speeds will decrease Monday through Wednesday, as a weakening cold front approaches the islands from the north. Leeward areas will see drier weather conditions. ![]() Passing showers are forecast through Sunday mainly over the windward and mountain areas, favoring the overnight to early morning hours. Easterly winds in the breezy to locally windy range are expected to last through the weekend. Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview: Our trade winds will continue to strengthen through Friday, as the high pressure ridge builds in north of the state. Skies are partly cloudy, with the temperature is a cool 44 degrees at 719am CA time. Glenn’s Thursday comments: I’m here in Corte Madera, Marin County, California. Please open this link…to see current Watches, Warnings and Advisories noted above ~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~ Model showing precipitation through 8-days (you can slow this animation down) Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, and the Big Island (Satellite) Some well developed cumulus clouds in the vicinity Variable clouds…some are of the high variety arriving from the west ![]() We see an upper low west-northwest of the island chain…prompting heavy showers Also, at night you will be able to see the stars, and the sunrise and sunset too…depending upon weather conditions. These webcams are available during the daylight hours here in the islands, and at night whenever there’s a big moon shining down. Here’s the webcam for the (~10,023 feet high) Haleakala Crater on Maui. Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcam on the summit of our tallest mountain Mauna Kea (~13,800 feet high) on the Big Island of Hawaii. The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph) Thursday afternoon: Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands as of Thursday afternoon: The latest update to this website was at 1205pm (Hawaii time) Thursday, May 4, 2023Īir Temperatures – The following high temperatures (F) were recorded across the state of Hawaii Wednesday …along with these low temperatures Thursday morning :
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