December 30, 2018 Weather Forecast
**Click directly on the images below to make them larger. Charts include: Hawaii Island high/low forecasted temperatures, projected winds, projected localized weather conditions and expected wave heights.**
Looking Ahead
High clouds will gradually diminish, and stable conditions will develop today as an upper level low southwest of the islands weakens and moves away. Locally breezy trade winds will persist, focusing clouds and showers over windward slopes. A rather dry, stable, and breezy trade wind flow will dominate through Friday, leading to light windward rainfall and dry conditions leeward. Trade winds may diminish next weekend.
Hilo
This Afternoon: Scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 81. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: Scattered showers. Cloudy, with a low around 64. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday: Scattered showers, mainly before noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Kona
This Afternoon: Isolated showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tonight: Isolated showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Light east southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Monday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 83. West southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the afternoon.
Waimea
This Afternoon: Isolated showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Windy, with a northeast wind 17 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tonight: Scattered showers, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Breezy, with a northeast wind 9 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday: Isolated showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Breezy, with a northeast wind 9 to 14 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Kohala
This Afternoon: Scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Windy, with an east northeast wind 22 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: Scattered showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday: Scattered showers, mainly before noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Windy, with an east northeast wind 14 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
South Point
This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 81. Windy, with an east wind around 28 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 75. Windy, with an east northeast wind 26 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Windy, with an east wind around 26 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
Puna
This Afternoon: Scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 78. North northeast wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: Scattered showers. Cloudy, with a low around 62. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday: Scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Light and variable wind becoming northeast 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Waikoloa
This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 15 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 83. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Data Courtesy of NOAA.gov