The Kaaawa plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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57° on Nov. 14, 2017, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 63° in 1946.
Kaaawa’s center stands about 230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 1,780 ft, a difference of 1,780 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kōnāhuanui, about 2,980 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Kaaawa has a tropical savanna climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in August; winter nights fall to about 68° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kaaawa normally reaches 81° and falls to 72°. The record high is 89°, in 1987; the record low 57°, in 2017. The most rain on this date, 1.79 in, fell in 1996.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 at Kaneohe Bay Mcas, 8 miles southeast, 210 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
