The Kawela Bay 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.
Kawela Bay’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from -10 ft to 1,000 ft, a difference of 1,010 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Puu Pauao, about 2,590 ft, 13 miles south-southeast.
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.
Kawela Bay 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 Kawela Bay 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, 4 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
