Hawaii Weather

National Weather Service

Thursday, February 19, 1998

Oahu

Today's forecast

Tonight, fair. Low in the upper 50s. Tomorrow, partly cloudy. Highs to lower 80s. Winds, trades 5-15 mph.

Extended forecast

Saturday through Monday, breezy with showers mainly windward and mauka. Highs 75-80. Lows near 70. Winds, trades, 5-30 mph.

Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai

Tonight, fair. Tomorrow, partly cloudy. Winds, trades 5-15 mph.

Big Island

Windward: Tonight, partly cloudy with decreasing showers. Tomorrow, partly cloudy with chance of a morning shower.

Leeward: Tonight, fair. Tomorrow, sunny morning, partly cloudy afternoon.

Winds, trades 10-20 mph except locally variable 5-15 mph.

Marine advisories

There is a ridge 200 nautical miles north of Honolulu nearly stationary.

There are no warnings.

Coastal waters: Tonight and tomorrow, near the Big Island east winds 15 knots, seas 4 feet. Elsewhere, east winds 10 knots, seas 2 feet. Mostly fair.

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

Volcano

Lava is flowing from remote Puu Oo crater to ocean entry points through underground tubes with little activity visible except coastal steam clouds.

Temperatures

At Honolulu Airport
Yesterday's high -- 80°F
Record high 1981 -- 84°F
Average February high -- 81°F
Today's low -- 64°F
Record low 1990 -- 57°F
Average February low -- 65°F
Relative humidity, 7 a.m. -- 81 percent

Rainfall

At Honolulu Airport
Last 24 hours as of 2 a.m. -- 0.00 in.
Actual so far this month -- 0.20 in.
Normal so far this month -- 1.58 in.
Actual so far this year -- 0.97 in.
Normal so far this year -- 5.13 in.

Surf forecast

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

Sun and moon

Sunset -- 6:33 p.m. today
Sunrise -- 6:59 a.m. tomorrow
Moonset -- 12:20 p.m. today
Moonrise -- 1:40 a.m. tomorrow

Phases of the moon: Last qtr. today, new Feb. 26, first qtr. March 4.
(Courtesy of Bishop Museum Planetarium)

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