The latest update to this website was at 732pm Friday (HST)

 

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

0.61  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
1.22  Manoa Lyon Arboretum, Oahu
1.05  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
3.38  West Wailuaiki, Maui
5.89  Saddle Quarry, Big Island

 

The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph) as of Friday evening:

21  Port Allen, Kauai
23  Kii, Oahu
31  Molokai AP, Molokai
35  Lanai 1, Lanai 
38  Kealaloloa Rg, Maui
40  Puuloa, Big Island

 

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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Thunderstorms far south…cold front northwest

 

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 Variable clouds over the islands…higher clouds south 

 

 

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Showers locally…some are heavy 

 

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

 

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Glenn’s Aloha Friday comments:  My good friend Bob Earle and I are here at Sea Ranch, CA.

It’s clear this morning here on the CA coast. The low temperature was 47 degrees.

Bob and I are leaving our Sea Ranch vacation rental, and heading back down south on Hwy 1…to our friend Linda’s in Corte Madera, Marin County, CA

We drove from Sea Ranch to Mill Valley and had lunch, and did a little shopping before we reached Linda’s place in Corte Madera.

Weather Wit of the day: Now the people who were flooded are really upset. The IRS raised their taxes because their property has become waterfront.

Interesting web story – Mauka Showers…Our First Cold Front-Drought Buster?

>>> Highest Temperature Friday, November 14, 2025 – 95 near Rio Grande Village, Texas
>>> Lowest Temperature Friday, November 14, 2025 – 12 at Mount Washington, NH

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview:  Locally breezy trades continue into the weekend during which time drier weather is anticipated. There is a chance for a brief period of wetter weather during the middle of next week.

Hawaii’s Weather Details: A drier pattern has already established over the western end of the island chain, where partly cloudy skies and limited shower activity prevail. Imagery suggests a narrow ribbon of even drier air lurking immediately upstream as evidenced by nearly cloud free skies east of the islands. As this drier airmass advances into the area, it will cause steady showers over Windward Big Island & Maui to gradually diminish as the night progresses. The smaller islands will likewise remain mostly dry through the night. Locally breezy trades and a fairly typical trade wind pattern then prevail through at least Monday.

Global guidance in good agreement that a rather warm low will develop over the islands during the early portion of next week. Attendant adjustment to the low-level wind field will cause emerging SE winds in the mid-levels to carry deep tropical moisture over the area, while ESE trades prevail at the surface.

Forecast soundings indicate rather dry and stable low-levels, which suggests potential for some higher based light/stratiform rain operating independently of trade wind showers below, during the initial moisture surge. However, as moisture deepens during mid-week, the potential will exist for any moisture embedded in the trades to capitalize on existing convective instability, and also tap into ample mid/upper level moisture suggesting a brief window for moderate to heavy trade wind showers.

The best opportunity for such shower activity likely comes as the aforementioned closed low lifts NE out of the area, bringing with it a brief hit of dynamic forcing Tuesday into Wednesday. Worth noting that the GFS model has demonstrated a tendency to spin up a spurious low SE of the Big Island. Subsequent output indicates associated heavy rain and strong wind field are likely unreliable for now. Potential for flooding in this scenario appears limited at this time.

Fire weather:  The inversion slopes from around 7,000 feet at Lihue to 10,000 feet at Hilo. The inversion will fall to around 5,000 or 6,000 feet by Saturday, as drier air infiltrates the area and the resident band of showers over Windward Big Island sags south and diminishes. The potential exists for a brief period of wetter weather during the middle of next week.

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: The tight pressure gradient from a large surface high northeast of the islands, will continue to drive moderate to locally strong trade winds across the majority of the local nearshore waters. The high will travel south-southeast while slightly weakening, resulting in decreasing easterlies through the weekend. An all-water Small Craft Advisory (SCA) remains in effect for both gusty winds and high seas. Western marine zones will fall off tonight with zones from the Kaiwi Channel eastward remaining in the SCA overnight Saturday morning. A SCA will be in effect for the traditionally windy waters surrounding Maui County and Big Island until 6am Sunday morning. A front approaching from the northwest early next week, could veer moderate to fresh winds a touch south of east.

The recent short period northeast chop generated by a strong trade fetch will be on the gradual decline through Saturday. Choppy east surf will gradually decline through the weekend as a result of weakening local and upstream trades. The small northwest swell has peaked and will fade. A smaller size, medium period northwest swell will fill in this weekend, and provide a small boost to north and west-facing shore surf. The small, medium period south swell will slowly fade. Very small background southerly swell will remain through the weekend.



World-wide Tropical Cyclone Activity

 

Atlantic Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7-days.

Caribbean Sea:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7-days.

Gulf of America:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7-days.

 

Northeastern Pacific:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.

North Central Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.

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

 

Northwest Pacific Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

Southwest Pacific Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones

North and South 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

 

Interesting:  How Climate Change Brings Wildlife to the Yard

As climate change increases the frequency of droughts, UCLA and UC Davis researchers found one overlooked side effect: People report more conflicts with wildlife during drought, when resources are scarce.

For every inch that annual rainfall decreases, scientists found a 2% to 3% increase in reported clashes with a variety of carnivores during drought years, according to a paper published today, Nov. 12, in the journal Science Advances.

The researchers pored through seven years of data from the Wildlife Incident Reporting database, run by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The results are likely broadly applicable outside of California, said lead author Kendall Calhoun, a postdoctoral researcher and conservation ecologist affiliated with both UCLA and UC Davis.

Read more at: University of California Davis

A coyote passes a trail camera in Quail Ridge Nature Reserve in Napa County, California.