A time lapse view of Hawaiian weather Friday appears here, as videoed here on the northwest coast of Hawaii's Big Island--what's known as the Kohala Coast--4,265 miles southwest of Chicago and approximately 2,400 miles from the nearest continental land mass (which is the North American continent). When one is in Hawaii, you really ARE surrounded by a whole lot of ocean!! And the ocean waters surrounding Hawaii deepen quickly as you depart the Islands here. The Hawaiian islands effectively sit at

Time lapse of Tuesday's Hawaiian weather looking out over Hapuna Beach and the Pacific from the northwest coast of the 50th State's Big Island. | Tom Skilling

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