The latest update to this website was at 922am Wednesday (HST)

 

Here are the latest 24-hour precipitation totals (inches) for each of the islands as of Wednesday morning:

0.01  Waialae, Kauai
0.01  Kahana, Oahu
0.01  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.01  Puu Kukui, Maui
0.62  Laupahoehoe, Big Island

The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph) as of Wednesday morning:

09  Makaha Ridge, Kauai – SE
13  Palehua, Oahu – NE
09  Puu Alii, Molokai – SE
13   Lanai 1,  Lanai – NE
20  Kealaloloa Rg, Maui – NNE
32  Kealakomo, Big Island – NNW  

Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcams on the summit of our tallest mountain Mauna Kea (~13,800 feet high) on the Big Island of Hawaii, and atop the Haleakala Crater (~10,023 feet) on Maui. These webcams are available during the daylight hours here in the islands, and at night whenever there’s a big moon shining down. Also, at night you will be able to see the stars, and the sunrise and sunset too…depending upon weather conditions.

 

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Big Blue…click twice for largest version

 

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 The next robust cold front is approaching from the northwest

 

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Clear to partly cloudy skies…with a few cloudy areas 

 

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Very few showers in Hawaii

 

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Please open this link to see details on any current Watches, Warnings and Advisories noted above

 

~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative ~~~

 

Glenn’s Wednesday comments:  I’m here at home in upper Kula, Maui

It mostly clear with a few clouds early this morning, with near calm winds, and a cold low temperature of 41.5 degrees at my place, and the relative humidity 65%.

 

Weather Wit of the day: Mushroom – The space between dog sleds

 

>>> Highest Temperature Tuesday, February 3, 2026 – 89 at Indio, CA
>>> Lowest Temperature Wednesday, February 4, 2026 – minus 21 near Covington, MI

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview:  Dry weather and light winds prevail through Thursday, followed by a transition to a very windy and much wetter period Friday night into early next week. This could be a significant weather event with torrential rain and flooding, strong winds, and thunderstorms.

Hawaii’s Weather Details: Skies were partly cloudy early this morning, and no precipitation was observed by radar. Winds were light and out of the north to northeast, but will become southeast by this afternoon. Land breezes were noted (downsloping out of higher terrain), and winds will remain light enough this afternoon for sea breezes to develop. The High Wind Warning for the summits on Big Island has been cancelled.

Today will be partly to mostly sunny with limited light showers due to sea breezes possible, mainly on the Big Island. Our light winds are mainly due to a ridge aloft centered off to our southwest. A surface high was located just to our northwest this morning, and this feature will slowly slide off to the east.

This will keep us with relatively light winds for the next couple of days, and the wind direction will become south to southwest Thursday. This will help draw up plenty of moisture from the south. At the same time, a strong cold front will be pushed toward the state by an upper level trough. The front should reach Kauai County Friday and Oahu Friday night, then Maui County Saturday morning and the Big Island Saturday late afternoon or evening. Very cold air aloft will move in with the upper trough, yielding considerable instability. There will be a slight chance of thunderstorms to much of the area beginning Saturday and going through Sunday night. Strong trade winds will move in behind the front, gradually building from 15 to 20 mph Friday night into Saturday up to 30 and perhaps 35 mph Sunday through Monday.

Upper level winds will be strong enough to help any thunderstorms that form become “organized”, which means potentially long-lasting and relatively strong. Therefore, torrential rainfall leading to flooding and strong winds are possible with the stronger showers and any storms that form. The strong winds will likely mean faster-moving storms, which may limit the chance of flash flooding somewhat. But the chance is still high enough to be worth mentioning.

This could end up being a significant system that bears close watching as we move toward the weekend.                                                                                                                                                         

Here’s a near real-time Wind Profile of the Pacific Ocean – along with a Closer View of the islands / Vog map animation / 8-Day Precipitation model

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Hawaii’s Marine Environment:  Moderate to fresh north to northeast breezes will briefly veer out of the east as high pressure builds over the state. The pressure gradient will become weak enough to support localized afternoon sea breezes for Kauai and Oahu. Moderate to locally fresh south to southwest kona winds are expected to return over the western end of the state during the second half of the week, as the next cold front draws closer. Guidance shows this next front moving into the area late Friday through Saturday, with strong- to near gale-force northeast winds filling in behind it late in the weekend through early next week. Ocean conditions will quickly respond and become rough due to a combination of winds and seas. In addition to the winds and seas, a wet pattern with locally heavy rainfall and potentially a few storms will accompany this front.

Surf along exposed north- and west-facing shores of the smaller islands will remain well above warning levels before gradually lowering to advisory levels by Thursday. Observations at the offshore buoys to the northwest reflect this trend and indicate the swell steadily easing overnight. Heights will dip below advisory levels for a brief period Thursday night into Friday, then return to warning levels for exposed coasts Friday night into Saturday, due to a fresh northwest swell arriving. For north facing shores of the Big Island, heights will remain around the advisory level, then drop below tonight.

Surf along east facing shores could quickly rise and become rough this weekend, with heights potentially nearing the warning level during the peak by Monday.

 

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World-wide Tropical Cyclone Activity

 

Atlantic Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Caribbean Sea:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Gulf of America:  There are no active tropical cyclones

 

Northeastern Pacific:  There are no active tropical cyclones

North Central Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones

Here’s the link to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)

 

Northwest Pacific Ocean: 

Tropical Cyclone 02W (Penha)…is located approximately 711 NM east-southeast of Manila, Philippines

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Southwest Pacific Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

North Indian Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

 

South Indian Ocean:  

Tropical Cyclone 19S (Fytia)…is located approximately 181 NM south of St. Denis – Final Warning

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Arabian Sea:  There are no active tropical cyclones

 

Here’s a link to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

 

>>> Here’s a link to the Pacific Disaster Center’s (PDC Global) Weather Wall website

 

Interesting:  Greenland Ice Cap Vanished Just 7,000 Years Ago

The first study from GreenDrill—an ambitious project to recover rock samples buried thousands of feet beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet—finds that Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome ice cap had fully melted around 7,000 years ago, much more recently than previously thought. This research, co-led by Columbia University and the University at Buffalo, is intended to assess how sensitive Greenland’s ice is to climate change.

Published in Nature Geoscience, the findings suggest that the Prudhoe Dome, an ice dome in northwestern Greenland about 1,700 feet thick covering 965 square miles, is highly sensitive to the relatively mild temperatures of the Holocene, the interglacial period that began 11,000 years ago and continues today.

“The Holocene is a time known for climate stability, when humans first began developing farming practices and taking steps toward civilization,” says University at Buffalo’s Jason Briner, who co-leads the GreenDrill project. “If natural, mild climate change of that era melted Prudhoe Dome and kept it retreated for potentially thousands of years, it may only be a matter of time before it begins peeling back again from today’s human-induced climate change,”

Read more at: Columbia Climate School

GreenDrill team members at Prudhoe Dome, a key ice cap part of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The project’s first study shows this ice cap was gone 7,000 years ago.