The Waimea 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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55° on Nov. 17, 2006, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 58° in 1920.
Waimea’s center stands about 30 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 1,190 ft, a difference of 1,180 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kawaikini, about 5,200 ft, 13 miles east-northeast.
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.
Waimea has a tropical savanna climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in August; winter nights fall to about 64° in January. About 23 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Waimea normally reaches 83° and falls to 69°. The record high is 88°, in 1932; the record low 59°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 0.88 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Makaweli 965, 4 miles southeast, 110 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
