The Kahuku 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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89° on Nov. 11, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1980. Next is 88° in 2003.
Kahuku’s center stands about 15 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from -10 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 720 ft: hilly country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Puu Pauao, about 2,590 ft, 11 miles south.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Kahuku has a tropical savanna climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in August; winter nights fall to about 66° in January. About 33 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kahuku normally reaches 80° and falls to 71°. The record high is 87°, in 2006; the record low 65°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 5.20 in, fell in 1996.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1980 at Kii-Kahuku 911, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
