This dramatic cloud formation drifted menacingly over Kawaihae port one afternoon. Luckily, nothing biblical happened and the port survived.
Cloud over Kawaihae
Category Archives: Weather
Sunrise over Hualalai
Wispy clouds catch the early morning sun above Hualalai volcano while an inter-island tug and barge heads in toward Kawaihae harbor.
Rainbow and tsunami siren
A rainbow arches into the sky just beyond the tsunami siren above Kapa’a Beach Park. The scrubby, dry ground reflects the lack of rainfall on this part of the coast, less than 20 inches a year.
Abstracts: Raindrops on waxed metal
This week’s Friendly Friday challenge theme is ‘Raindrops.’ (See more responses here.) It was convenient therefore that today, just as I finished waxing some metal parts, a shower of rain passed over. The raindrops beaded up nicely on the shiny surface.
A sea of clouds
A sea of clouds separates Maui and the Big Island, as seen from the slopes of Mauna Kea. Somewhere under there is Kohala Mountain, which is 5,480 feet high.
Three volcanoes at dawn
Three of the Big Island’s volcanoes – from left, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hualalai – seen as daylight suffuses the sky.
Posted in response to this week’s Sunday Stills challenge on the theme of ‘Daylight.’ See more offerings here.
Rainbow over Kawaihae
A rainbow stretches out above Kawaihae, the main port on the west side of the Big Island.
Hualalai and clouds
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in my life looking up at clouds, often as they poured water in my direction, so it’s nice to look down on them once in a while. Airplanes are probably the most common place to enjoy this view, but here on the Big Island, the upper reaches of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa also offer this perspective.
In this case, the clouds were low enough that, when I was visiting the Palila Forest Discovery Trail at around 7,000 feet, the clouds blanketed the landscape below. Here, Hualalai pokes through the cloud layer in the late afternoon.
For more information about Palila Forest Discovery Trail, go to dlnr.hawaii.gov/restoremaunakea/palila-forest-discovery-trail/.
