Hawaii Weather

National Weather Service

Friday, May 16, 1997

Oahu

Today's forecast

Mostly fair tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow except for brief showers. Lows upper 60s. Highs 80-85. Trades 10-25 mph.

Extended forecast

Sunday through Tuesday, partly cloudy with a few showers mainly windward. Lows upper 60s. Highs to mid 80s.

Kauai, Molokai

Mostly fair tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow except for brief windward and mauka showers. Trades 10-25 mph.

Maui, Lanai

Tonight, brief windward and mauka showers. Mostly fair leeward. Tomorrow, mostly sunny after brief windward and mauka showers. Winds, trades 10-25 mph.

Big Island

Windward: Tonight, occasional showers. Tomorrow, cloudy periods and a few showers. Trades 10-25 mph.

Leeward: Tonight, clearing during the evening. Tomorrow, sunny morning becoming mostly cloudy in the afternoon with a few 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

A small new vent at the base of remote Puu Oo cinder cone is producing lava fountains 20-40 feet high.

Temperatures

At Honolulu Airport
Yesterday's high - 83°
Record high 1987 - 89°
Average May high - 85°
Today's low - 69°
Record low 1987 - 63°
Average May low - 65°
Relative humidity, 7 a.m. - 73 percent

Rainfall

At Honolulu Airport
Last 24 hours as of 2 a.m. - 0.00
Actual so far this month - 0.17 in.
Normal so far this month - 0.64 in.
Actual so far this year - 13.94 in.
Normal so far this year - 0.14 in.

Surf forecast

- Today - Tomw
Ala Moana - 1 ft. - 1 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 - 2:51 a.m. tomorrow
Moonrise - 3:17 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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