Glenn James
Hawaii Weather Today
Founder and maintainer for 30 years


The latest update to this website was 309am Sunday morning HST


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

0.45  N Wailua Ditch, Kauai 
1.28  Kamehame, Oahu
3.21  Honolimaloo, Molokai
1.23  Lanai City, Lanai
2.01  Na Kula, Maui
1.73  Pahala, Big Island


The following numbers represent the strongest wind gusts (mph) Saturday evening:

12  Waimea Heights, Kauai – SW
12  Schofield Barracks, Oahu – N
12   Makapulapai, Molokai – E
08  Lanai 1,  Lanai – S 
31  Kahului AP, Maui – SSE 
18  Mauna Loa Obs, Big Island


Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live webcam on the summit of our tallest mountain Mauna Kea (~13,800 feet high) on the Big Island of Hawaii. Here’s the webcam for the (~10,023 feet high) Haleakala Crater 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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A deep area of low pressure far north…with thunderstorms far south


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Multi-level clouds moving over the state 

 

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Showers locally

 

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Glenn’s Sunday comments:  I’m here in Vancouver, BC, Canada on a working vacation.

 

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>>> Lowest Temperature Saturday, April 11, 2026 –  15 degrees near Lutsen, MN

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview…as of 311pm Saturday:  Showers and isolated thunderstorms will spread over the western half of the state tonight and become heavy over central portions of the state Sunday into Sunday night. Flash flooding is possible. The heaviest rain is currently anticipated over Oahu and Molokai, and possibly Kauai.

>>> Today: areas of light to locally moderate rain.
>>> Heaviest rain to move back into western islands this evening.
>>> Slight chance of thunderstorms over mainly interior Big Island this afternoon.
>>> Focus Sunday through Monday will be over western islands – possibly extending east to Molokai.

Weather Details for the Hawaiian Islands…as of 311pm Saturday afternoon: Satellite indicates abundant high clouds that have limited surface heating and kept interior convection in check over island interiors. Low level clouds indicate persistent troughing draped over Maui County. This boundary supported scattered light showers this morning, but those have dissipated with diurnal warming. About 500 miles southwest of Kauai an extensive band of showers and thunderstorms is seen lifting northeastward toward the island. This activity is maintained by rather weak convergence and abundant tropical moisture.

This moisture rich environment is in the process of returning to the islands, especially over Oahu and Maui County. This activity is estimated to reach the western end of the state around midnight. Upper troughing approaches from the west tonight supporting additional pressure falls and strengthening of low-level convergence further east than the aforementioned band of showers upstream of Kauai. Further supporting this idea is a slight eastward shift with respect to the heavy rain axis. This is perhaps partly due to existing surface troughing drifting further east than anticipated.

Model cross sections are actually impressive with how quickly a deep, convergent frontal structure redevelops over central Hawaii. The front is shown to extend from the surface and tilt northwestward with height until it reaches jet stream level west of the state. An appreciable frontal circulation is also shown to accompany this developing feature, and increases confidence in the idea of development and maintenance of a weak-to-moderately forced axis of heavy rain. Primary forecast uncertainty lies with the position of this heavy rain axis.

Although surface troughing has drifted eastward and settled over Maui County, suspect convergence will tend to reorganize slightly further west as larger scale forcing manifests. Strong surface convergence then establishes over or in the vicinity of Oahu, and slowly drifts westward with time. Several inches of rain is likely over Oahu, and potentially part or all of Molokai. From a forecast accuracy standpoint, there is some concern that the heavy rain band could hang up in the Kaiwi Channel between Oahu and Molokai, but the expectation for a slow westward drift suggests Oahu will ultimately receive several hours of heavy rainfall one way or another.

The heavy rain band potentially reaches Kauai on Sunday night, but that remains quite uncertain at this juncture. On the other hand, confidence is increasing that the Big Island will remain largely dry save for typical afternoon showers over upslope areas. Given the flood response that was observed yesterday, there is concern for significant flash flooding impacts on Sunday especially since yesterday`s rainfall further saturated the ground. The existing Flood Watch is “considerable” and that is where it will stay for the time being.

Here’s a near real-time Wind Profile of the Pacific Ocean – along with a Closer View of the islands / Here’s the latest Weather Map / Looping Surface Precipitation…through the next 8-days/


Marine Environmental Conditions: A low pressure system that is currently north-northwest of the Hawaiian Islands continues to draw moisture across the area. Showers are continuing across the central and eastern coastal waters, though upper-level support is expected to diminish. A trough will linger in the vicinity of the islands into early next week, however, keeping winds lighter than seasonal average. Additional support for showers and isolated thunderstorms will return to the region by tonight into Sunday.

East of the trough, moderate to fresh southeasterly winds will prevail, while winds west of trough will be light and variable, which may become southerly next week but remain generally light. As southerly winds continue to decline, surf along south-facing shores will return smoother, less choppy conditions. Additionally, the medium-period south swell will gradually decline through the weekend. By Tuesday, however, a new south swell will arrive, once again providing a boost to surf along south facing shores.

A moderate, short to medium-period northwest swell, generated by the gale force low to the northwest will bring a boost to surf along north and west facing shores. Another northwest reinforcement on Sunday will maintain this small to moderate surf through the weekend, followed by a decline in northwest swell energy next week. Surf along east facing shores remains below seasonal average with lighter than average trade winds near and upstream of the islands forecast through next week.

 

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 Rainy weather with gusty winds locally


World-wide Tropical Cyclone Activity


>>> Here’s a link to the latest Pacific Disaster Center’s Weather Wall


>>> Atlantic Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones

>>> Caribbean Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones

>>> Gulf of Mexico: There are no active tropical cyclones

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

 

>>> Eastern Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones

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

>>> Central Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclones

Here’s the link to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC)

 

>>> Northwest Pacific Ocean:

Tropical Cyclone 04W (Sinlaku)…is located approximately 398 NM east-southeast of Navsta, Guam

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>>>Southwest Pacific Ocean: There are no active tropical cyclones

>>> North and South Indian Oceans / Arabian Sea: There are no active tropical cyclones



Interesting:  A New Way to Eavesdrop on Ocean Temperature in the Arctic

New research led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that the travel time of underwater sounds traveling across the Arctic Ocean can be used to precisely measure ocean temperature under the region’s sea ice, providing precious data on temperature variability in a rapidly changing environment that is remote and difficult to access. The technique, known as ocean acoustic thermometry, was originally developed by the late Walter Munk and Peter Worcester at Scripps and Carl Wunsch at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The basic principle leveraged by acoustic thermometry is that sound travels faster in warmer water and slower in colder water. The technique uses this relationship to infer the temperature of the water the acoustic signal passes through by measuring the time it takes the sound to travel from one point to another. The researchers tested the method during the 2019-2020 Arctic field season with the joint US-Norwegian Coordinated Arctic Acoustic Thermometry Experiment (CAATEX). The team used six bottom-anchored moorings across a roughly 2,600-kilometer (1,600-mile) path in the Arctic Ocean to transmit and measure acoustic signals every three days. The moorings spanned the Arctic Ocean, from north of Alaska in the west to north of Svalbard in the east, and remained in place for one year.

The experiment aimed to test whether this might be a viable way to measure Arctic Ocean temperature year-round, or if challenges such as the scattering of the sound by the rough undersides of sea ice might render the signals undetectable or impossible to decipher.

Read More at: University of California San Diego

An acoustic sound source manufactured at the Marine Science Development Center for Scripps researcher Matthew Dzieciuch being deployed in the Arctic Ocean from the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy. Acoustic systems like these are uniquely able to monitor under the ice where satellites are compromised, and provide an unprecedented look at the changing Arctic environment.