The Koloa 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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87° on Nov. 17, 1997, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 86° in 1959.
Koloa’s center stands about 210 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 1,140 ft, a difference of 1,130 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kawaikini, about 5,200 ft, 11 miles north-northwest.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Koloa has a tropical savanna climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 66° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Koloa normally reaches 81° and falls to 71°. The record high is 86°, in 2010; the record low 61°, in 1981. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 from the Lihue Area threaded record (Lihue Airport 1020.1, 10 miles northeast, 100 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
