Hawaii Weather

National Weather Service

Thursday, May 15, 1997

Oahu

Today's forecast

Tonight and tomorrow, cloudy with a few showers windward and mauka. Lows 65-70. Highs upper 70s to low 80s. Trades 10-25 mph.

Extended forecast

Saturday through Monday, partly cloudy with a few showers, mainly windward areas. Lows mid 60s. Highs mid 80s.

Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai

Tonight, occasional windward and mauka showers. Mostly fair leeward. Tomorrow, partly cloudy windward and mauka with a few showers. Mostly sunny leeward. Trades 10-25 mph.

Big Island

Windward: Tonight, a few showers. Tomorrow, cloudy periods with a few showers. WInds, trades 10-25 mph.

Leeward: Tonight, clearing during the evening. Tomorrow, sunny morning, becoming mostly cloudy in the afternoon with upslope showers. Winds, variable 5-15 mph.

Marine advisories

Caution is advised over all waters due to marginal winds and seas.

Coastal waters: Tonight and tomorrow, northeast winds 20 knots, seas 8 ft. A few windward showers.

Channels: Tonight, tomorrow, northeast winds 25 knots, seas 12 ft.

Volcano

The eruption at the base of remote Puu Oo cinder cone is periodicaly turning on and off, sending scattered lava flows short distances in various directions.

Temperatures

At Honolulu Airport
Yesterday's high - 81°F
Record high 1996 - 90°F
Average May high - 85°F
Today's low - 70°F
Record low 1952 - 63°F
Average May low - 70°F
Relative humidity, 7 a.m. - 73 percent

Rainfall

At Honolulu Airport
Last 24 hours as of 2 a.m. - Trace
Actual so far this month - 0.17 in.
Normal so far this month - 0.60 in.
Actual so far this year - 13.94 in.
Normal so far this year - 10.10 in.

Surf forecast

- Today - Tomw
Ala Moana - 1 ft. - ft.
Makaha - 1 ft. - 1 ft.
Sunset Beach - 1 ft. - 1 ft.
Makapuu - 2-3ft. - 2-3ft.

Sun and moon

Sunset - 7:03 p.m. tonight
Sunrise - 5:53 a.m. tomorrow
Moonset - 2:15 a.m. tomorrow
Moonrise - 2:27 p.m. tomorrow

Phases of the moon: Full May 21, last qtr. May 28, new June 4

(Courtesy of Bishop Museum Planetarium)

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