Hawaii Weather

National Weather Service

Tuesday, March 18, 1997

Oahu

Today's forecast

Tonight, fair and cool. Low in lower 60s. Tomorrow, mostly sunny. High near 80. Winds becoming trades 10-20 mph.

Extended forecast

Thursday through Saturday, mostly sunny. Lows upper 60s. Highs lower 80s.

Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai

Tonight, fair and cool. Tomorrow, mostly sunny. Winds becoming trades 10-20 mph. A high-wind warning in effect for the summit of Haleakala.

Big Island

Tonight, fair and cool. Tomorrow, mostly sunny. Winds becoming trades 10-20 mph.

A high-wind warning is in effect for the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.

Marine advisories

Coastal waters: Tonight and tomorrow, northeast winds 15 knots, seas 4 ft. A few showers over windward waters of the Big Island. Fair elsewhere.

Channels: Tonight and tomorrow, northeast winds 20 knots, seas 8 ft.

Volcano

No volcanic activity is taking place except for slow churning within a lava pond deep inside Puu Oo cinder cone.

Temperatures

At Honolulu Airport
Yesterday's high - 82°F
Record high 1960 - 89°F
Average March high - 82°F
Today's low - 62°F
Record low 1958 - 57°F
Average Marchlow - 67°F
Relative humidity, 7 a.m. - 78 percent

Rainfall

At Honolulu Airport
Last 24 hours as of 2 a.m. - 0.93 in.
Actual so far this month - 2.42 in.
Normal so far this month - 1.31 in.
Actual so far this year - 10.29 in.
Normal so far this year - 7.07 in.

Surf forecast

Today - Tomw
Ala Moana - 1 ft. - 1 ft.
Makaha - 2-3ft. - 2-3ft.
Sunset Beach - 4-6ft. - 4-6ft.
Makapuu - 1 ft. - 1 ft.

Sun and moon

Sunset - 6:42 p.m. tonight
Sunrise - 6:36 a.m. tomorrow
Moonrise - 2:35 p.m. today
Moonset - 3:45 a.m. tomorrow

Phases of the moon: Full March 23, last qtr. March 31, new April 7.

(Courtesy of Bishop Museum Planetarium)

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