Honaunau-NapoopooPHRH1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/98 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Kapahukapu Manini Beach until 6 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kapahukapu Manini Beach is 82° and mostly cloudy at 5 PM. With the humidity it feels like 85°. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 72° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
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, 26% lit, and sets at 9:57 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 day is 11 hours 43 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Kapahukapu Manini Beach, Hawaii.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Waikoloa (HI), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing WSW 248°
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 Kapahukapu Manini Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Honaunau-NapoopooPHRH1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/98 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
KainaliuS2096
At a soil climate station/4.3 mi away/1,364 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/20.2 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mauna Loa 5 NNE21514
At a climate reference station/23.2 mi away/11,179 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Capt.CookKLAH1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.7 mi away/1,465 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Kealakekua 2.6 SWHI-HI-112
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/1,961 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
-
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.