Temperature
78 F at 5 PM; 86 F at its warmest, 11 AM, and 73 F at its coolest, 11 PM Wednesday.
- Now
- 78F
- 5 PM
- Highest
- 86F
- 11 AM
- Lowest
- 73F
- 11 PM Wednesday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Kahului International Airport is 78° and partly cloudy at 7 PM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 73° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. Highs stay close to 88° all week. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:56 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 42 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 PM in Kahului International Airport, Hawaii.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Kahului (HI), 5 miles off.
Yesterday measured 8, good.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 6,998 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 33° / 213° | 12 mph head, on 02 | 4 mph from the right |
| 05 / 23 | 4,980 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 64° / 244° | 13 mph head, on 05 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Kahului (PHOG), Kahului International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
78 F at 5 PM; 86 F at its warmest, 11 AM, and 73 F at its coolest, 11 PM Wednesday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 70 F, the air 76% saturated; the humidity ran from 55% at 1 PM to 87% at 8 PM Wednesday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
15 mph from the northeast at 5 PM; at its strongest 23 mph, 2 PM, with a gust of 37 mph at 11 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.98 inHg at 5 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 8 PM Wednesday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,500 ft at 8 PM Wednesday; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Kahului: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Kahului International Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
KahuluiPHOG
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/46 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/-9 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wailuku 1.2 SHI-MI-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/522 ft/468 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PukalaniPUKH1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/1,656 ft/1,602 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.