The Lawai 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.
Lawai’s center stands about 550 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 1,820 ft, a difference of 1,800 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kawaikini, about 5,200 ft, 9 miles north.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Lawai 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 Lawai 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, 11 miles east-northeast, 440 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
