CBA Pahala

Pahala Weather      
images and information from
NOAA offices and satellites (NOAA has recently changed web addresses for many of their pages and images, and we will have to suffer the broken links)		 Ka'u monthly newspaper      
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Current GOES Infra-red Image

US Visible Image at 4 pm

Click on the picture of Mauna Kea
for an animated view of the latest
night sky from Mauna Kea.
This will give an idea of the general level
of high cloudiness present over the island.
Mauna Kea is about 40 miles north of Pahala.
Jonathan Kemp of CBA Hilo has a
more complete weather page related to the area.

US NOAA Weather Chart

Links to other pages

Weather Forecast for Pahala.

Weather Office Products.

Satellite Weather Interpretation

Weather Radar Animated Loop.

Long term Patterns for Astronomy

The late Bill Albrecht, a prolific AAVSO observer, lived in Pahala for 20 years
and made 90,000 observations of variable stars. His data was analyzed to
form an impression of the weather here. The plot on the right shows the
percentage of nights per month when he observed. From this one can infer
the frequency of clear or partly clear nights throughout the year.
Average monthly rainfall for Pahala throughout the year
(Redrawn from Climate and Water Balance on the Island of Hawaii
by James O. Juvik, D. C. Singleton, and G. G. Clarke,
Department of Geography, University of Hawaii)
Hawaii earthquakes. This is not weather related.

Clicking takes you to HVO Earthquake page and list of Earthquakes on this map.

The Kiluea Eruption Update will give details on the latest activity of the
volcano. Pahala faces little threat from lava from Kiluea, but does suffer
the risk of high SO2 levels and ash deposits. These are a distnct threat.
The current eruption may continue to be small or it could rival Mt. St. Helens.
Currently, there is vog (= volcanic fog) that ruins about half of the observing nights. Yuck!

Mauna Loa, which last erupted in 1984, lies directly above us. It has been
inflating since May 2002. An eruption in the next decades is possible.

Lew's CBA sites:
CBA Pahala
CBA Concord
Lew's Affiliation with the
Center for Backyard Astrophysics
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