Hawaii Weather

National Weather Service

Wednesday, May 21, 1997

Oahu

Today's forecast

Tonight, fair. Low in mid 60s. Tomorrow, sunny. High 80-85. Winds southwest 10-20 mph.

Extended forecast

Friday, showers Kauai and Oahu, partly sunny elsewhere. Saturday, showers moving down to Maui County and the Big Island, clearing Kauai and Oahu. Sunday, partly sunny.

Kauai

Tonight, mostly fair. Tomorrow, becoming mostly cloudy. Winds, southwest 15-30 mph.

Maui, Lanai, Molokai

Tonight, fair. Tomorrow, mostly sunny. Winds, southwest 10-20 mph.

Big Island

Windward: Tonight and tomorrow, continued cloudy with brief showers. Winds, variable 5-15 mph.

Leeward: Tonight, clearing. Tomorrow, sunny morning, cloudy afternoon with a few upslope showers. Winds, variable 5-15 mph.

Marine advisories

Coastal waters: Tonight, winds turning southwest 10-15 knots, seas 2-4 ft. Tomorrow, generally southwest winds 15 knots, seas 4 ft, with southwest winds to 25 knots, seas 12 ft near Kauai.

Channels: Tonight, southwest winds 15-20 knots, seas 4-8 ft. Tomorrow, southwest winds 20 knots, seas 8 ft, with winds in Kauai channel southwest to 30 knots, seas 18 ft.

Volcano

Lava continues erupting at the base of remote Puu Oo cinder cones, but flows are no more than a mile long, covering earlier lava.

Temperatures

At Honolulu Airport
Yesterday's high -- 83°F
Record high 1996 -- 90°F
Average May high -- 85°F
Today's low tied record -- 64°F
Previous record low1985 -- 64°F
Average May low -- 70°F
Relative humidity, 7 a.m. -- 81 percent

Rainfall

At Honolulu Airport
Last 24 hours as of 2 a.m. -- Zero
Actual so far this month -- 0.17 in.
Normal so far this month -- 0.83 in.
Actual so far this year -- 13.94 in.
Normal so far this year -- 10.33 in.

Surf forecast

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

Sun and moon

Sunset -- 7:05 p.m. tonight
Sunrise -- 5:51 a.m. tomorrow
Moonrise -- 6:48 p.m. today
Moonset -- 6:20 a.m. tomorrow

Phases of the moon: Last qtr. May 28, new June 4, first qtr. June 12.

(Courtesy of Bishop Museum Planetarium)

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