The latest update to this website was at 916am Wednesday (HST)

 

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

0.01  Kilohana, Kauai
0.01  Kahana, Oahu
0.00  Molokai
0.00  Lanai City, Lanai
0.01  Puu Kukui, Maui
0.11  Kaupulehu, Big Island

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

09  Makaha Ridge, Kauai – SSE
09  Kuaokala, Oahu – SSE
05  Makaena, Molokai – NE
04  Lanai 1,  Lanai – NE 
07  Kula, Maui – E
12  Pali 2, 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 approaching cold front is northwest

 

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Lots of cloud free areas

 

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Very few showers 

 

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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’s mostly clear early this morning, with a low temperature of 52 degrees at my place…with the relative humidity 80%

 

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Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview:  A surface ridge will maintain light winds with land and sea breezes for the next couple of days. Isolated showers will affect windward sections of the eastern islands overnight into the early morning hours, and the island interiors each afternoon and early evening.

A weak cold front could increase showers late Thursday night through Saturday as it moves southeastward into the islands. Another stronger cold front could increase shower coverage as well as bring breezy southwesterly kona winds late Sunday into early next week.

Hawaii’s Weather Details:  Currently at the surface, a high is centered to the distant northeast, with a ridge axis extending southwestward from the high, to a location over the western end of the state. This is resulting in light winds with land breezes present across the island chain.

Infrared satellite imagery shows mostly clear skies across the state, with radar imagery showing a few showers over the coastal waters and brushing east and southeast facing slopes of Maui and the Big Island. Main short term focus revolves around minimal rain chances during the next couple of days.

The ridge of high pressure over the western end of the state will shift slowly southeastward during the next couple of days, as a cold front approaches from the northwest. This will keep a light wind regime in place across the state. As a result, a few showers will affect windward locations over the eastern end of the state overnight and during the morning hours, with a few showers then possible over the island interiors each afternoon before diminishing in the early evening hours.

Models are in good agreement showing a cold front moving into Kauai late Thursday night, then decaying as it shifts southeastward down the island chain Friday and Saturday. The front will bring an increase in clouds and showers as it moves through, but with the best forcing remaining well north of the state, no significant rainfall is expected.

The old front or its remnant moisture should lift back north of the islands on Sunday, as yet another front approaches from the northwest. This front appears stronger, with moderate to breezy southwesterly kona winds developing in advance late Sunday into Monday. The front appears to move through the state later Monday through Tuesday, accompanied by a line of heavier showers with potentially gusty winds.

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:  Light winds will prevail through Thursday as a surface ridge remains over the islands. The background flow will remain out of the southeast for Maui and the Big Island waters, and out of the south to southwest over the Kauai and Oahu waters. While most coastal areas will experience typical overnight land breezes and afternoon sea breezes, terrain-induced accelerations will lead to brief periods of locally enhanced winds, where the flow parallels to the coast, particularly through the afternoon hours. Moderate to fresh northerly winds will gradually fill in on Friday, as a cold front moves into the area.

Surf along exposed north- and west-facing shores will remain around the advisory levels, then gradually lower. Offshore buoy observations to the northwest already show a downward trend, which should be reflected at the nearshore buoys as the swell eases.

A more significant northwest swell is expected through the second half of the week and weekend, from a broad and complex low that has evolved over the far northwest Pacific in the past few days. Latest analysis and satellite imagery show this system positioned over the far northwest Pacific near the western Aleutians, with a captured fetch focused at the islands within the 290 to 315 degree directional bands. This swell will begin building down the island chain Thursday and will be a long-duration event, with a peak centered around the Friday through Saturday time frame. Heights will exceed advisory levels by Thursday, then warning levels Friday through Saturday.

Impacts associated with the warning-level surf Friday through Saturday will likely lead to some water reaching areas that typically remain dry along exposed coasts, including vulnerable low-lying roadways and infrastructure. This likelihood will especially increase if the peak surf coincides with the overnight high tide cycle Friday night.

Surf along east-facing shores will remain small due to the lack of trades locally and upstream of the state.

Surf along south-facing shores will remain up before easing Thursday as a small, long-period south-southwest swell moves through.

 

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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:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Southwest Pacific Ocean:

Tropical Cyclone 18P…is located approximately 272 NM west of Suva, Fiji

North Indian Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones 

South Indian Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones 

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

 

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A new analysis of air quality data from the past 70 years shows that Canada’s record wildfire smoke in 2023 is part of a broader, continent-wide trend toward smokier skies across North America.

“What we found is a big east-to-west shift,” says lead author Robert D. Field, an associate research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, part of the Columbia Climate School. “Air quality improved in the east as industrial emissions dropped, and at the same time it degraded in the west because of more fire.”

Published in Earth’s Future, the paper includes a review of climate projection studies indicating that, on average, warming is likely to continue to lead to drier, more fire-prone summers across many parts of Canada. Although the projected changes may differ by region, and it’s not certain how burned areas will change in the future, the projections align with the increases in burned area seen over the past decade.

The findings point to a future in which fire-weather conditions driven by climate change play a growing role in shaping summer air quality in both the United States and Canada. Wildfire smoke is a public health concern because it can’t be reduced through the same regulatory tools used to address fossil fuel pollution.

Read More: Columbia Climate School