At an airfield/2.9 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Kaʻelehuluhulu is 77° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 76° by 8 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 10, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 87° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 2:00 AM in Kaʻelehuluhulu, Hawaii.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Waikoloa (HI), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 13, good.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing NW 319°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The surf zone forecast for Big Island Leeward.
Big Island Leeward. Issued 3:02 PM HST Thu Oct 15.
| Shore | Tonight | Friday | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM | PM | AM | PM | |
| West Facing | 3-5 | 3-5 | 3-5 | 3-5 |
| South Facing | 4-6 | 4-6 | 4-6 | 3-5 |
| Forecast | Tonight | Friday |
|---|---|---|
| Weather | Partly cloudy. Isolated showers | Mostly sunny. Isolated showers |
| High temperature | - | In the upper 80s |
| Low temperature | In the lower 70s | - |
| Winds | West winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast | Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon |
| Sunrise | - | 6:19 AM HST |
| Sunset | - | 6:01 PM HST |
| Tides | KonaHigh 1.0 ft, 4:52 PMLow 0.2 ft, 11:38 PMKawaihaeHigh 0.8 ft, 6:11 PMLow 0.3 ft, 11:50 PM | KonaHigh 1.8 ft, 7:47 AMKawaihaeHigh 2.1 ft, 7:51 AMLow 0.6 ft, 4:02 PM |
The 6 instruments nearest Kaʻelehuluhulu, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/2.9 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kaloko-HonokohauKHOH1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.6 mi away/24 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
KainaliuS2096
At a soil climate station/18.6 mi away/1,364 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Mauna Loa 5 NNE21514
At a climate reference station/35.3 mi away/11,179 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Kalaoa 2.5 ENEHI-HI-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/1,622 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waimea - KamuelaWBRH1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 mi away/44 ft/- ft from 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.