Hawaii Weather

National Weather Service

Friday, April 18, 1997

Oahu

Today's forecast

Tonight, fair. Low in the upper 60s. Tomorrow, sunny morning. Mostly cloudy afternoon. High in the mid 80s. Winds, variable 5-15 mph.

Extended forecast

Sunday through Tuesday, mostly partly cloudy, with a few windward showers. Winds becoming trades on Monday.

Kauai, Maui Molokai, Lanai

Tonight, fair. Tomorrow, sunny morning. Mostly cloudy afternoon. Winds, variable 5-15 mph.

Big Island

Tonight, brief showers along the windward coast. Clearing over the slopes. Fair elsewhere. Tomorrow, brief morning showers along the windward coast. Partly cloudy elsewhere. Then partly cloudy afternoon along the coast. Cloudy over the lower slopes and partly cloudy over the interior. Winds, trades 5-15 mph exposed areas of the Kohala, Hamakua and Kau coasts, variable 5-15 mph. elsewhere.

Marine advisories

There is a ridge 100 nautical miles north of Honolulu nearly stationary.

There are no warnings.

Coastal waters: Tonight and tomorrow, variable winds 10 knots, seas 2 ft. Fair.

Channels: Tonight and tomorrow, east winds 10-15 knots, seas 2-4 feet.

Volcano

Low-level eruptions are continuing at the base of Puu Oo cinder cone with localized lava flows creating a glow in the area at night.

Temperatures

At Honolulu Airport
Yesterday's high -- 84°
Record high 1988 -- 88°
Average April high -- 83°
Today's low -- 66°
Record low 1989 -- 62°
Average April low -- 69°
Relative humidity, 7 a.m. -- 87 percent

Rainfall

At Honolulu Airport
Last 24 hours as of 2 a.m. -- 0.00 in.
Actual so far this month -- 0.60 in.
Normal so far this month -- 0.98 in.
Actual so far this year -- 13.37 in.
Normal so far this year -- 8.94 in.

Surf forecast

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

Sun and moon

Sunset -- 6:52 p.m. today
Sunrise -- 6:09 a.m. tomorrow
Moonrise -- 3:46 p.m. today
Moonset -- 4:17 a.m. tomorrow

Phases of the moon: Full April 22, last qtr. April 28, new May 6

(Courtesy of Bishop Museum Planetarium)






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