Glenn James
Hawaii Weather Today
Creator, Author, and Administrator for 30 years

 

The latest update to this website was at 6pm Tuesday evening HST


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

0.30  N Wailua Ditch, Kauai
0.02  Poamoho RG 2, Oahu
0.06  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.04  Lanai City, Lanai
0.97  West Wailuaiki, Maui
2.90  Kawainui Stream, Big Island


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

15  Port Allen, Kauai – W
20  Kuaokala, Oahu – NE 
23  Makapulapai, Molokai – E
20  Lanai 1, Lanai – NE
39  Na Kula, Maui – ESE
33  Puuloa, Big Island – NE


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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Upper level low northwest…thunderstorms in the deeper tropics

 

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Variable low clouds…altocumulus/cirrus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     clouds moving over us from the southwest

 

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Localized 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 Tuesday comments:  I’m at home here in upper Kula, Maui, Hawaii

508am, it’s clear with a few altocumulus clouds here in upper Kula with calm winds, and a low temperature at my place of 54.5 degrees…with the relative humidity 81%

124pm, it’s partly to mostly cloudy here on Maui, and here in upper Kula, I’m getting a very light shower.

246pm, it’s wet here in ucountry Maui, with light showers falling, not unlike yesterday afternoon’s weather conditions.

412pm, it’s cloudy/foggy here in upper Kula, with light showers falling.

630pm, the clouds are breaking up and the sun is out as we head gradually towards the sunset hour.

725pm, the high level clouds lit up a wonderful pink/orange at sunset!

 

>>> Highest Temperature Tuesday, June 30, 2026 – 106 at Rio Grande Village, CA
>>> Lowest Temperature Tuesday, June 30, 2026 – 19 degrees at Peter Sinks, UT

 

Hawaii’s Weather Highlights…as of Tuesday evening: Moderate to locally breezy trade winds will continue through the weekend. Bands of low clouds and showers will be carried in on the trades, focused primarily over windward and mountain areas during the overnight and early morning hours. An enhanced area of moisture is expected to reach the islands tonight through Wednesday, bringing more widespread showers. Humidity levels will rise, bringing muggier conditions across the island chain through mid-week. Additional areas of increased low level moisture are possible this coming weekend.

Weather Commentary…as of Tuesday evening: High pressure will remain far north of the state for the coming week as it slowly drifts west. Moderate to breezy trade winds will continue, with showers mainly windward and mountains, and more numerous at night. A trough appears on satellite imagery passing north of the islands. Upstream (east) of the islands, an enhanced cluster of cumulus clouds, indicating increased rain shower activity, has decreased significantly in intensity. These features will track westward across the islands tonight through Wednesday, bringing increased shower activity to windward and mountain areas, and increasing the chance for noticeable spillover to leeward areas. Brief heavy rain is possible, but the risk for flooding is low.

Humidity levels will increase tonight as this pocket of moisture arrives, but the more well-defined trough will skirt north of the islands, meaning the most significant increase in moisture/rainfall is expected to miss the islands. As a result, rain shower coverage and intensity has been somewhat decreased in the forecast.

Drier (more seasonal) conditions are then expected from Wednesday night into the weekend, as humidity levels decrease once again. There is some potential for low-level moisture to increase again this weekend. Temperatures aloft remain quite warm, which means there will be no additional upper-level support for very heavy precipitation or thunderstorms.

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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 / Vog Map

 

Marine Conditions…as of Tuesday evening: Surface high pressure far north-northeast of the islands will slowly drift west, keeping moderate to locally strong trade winds through Wednesday before declining slightly through the rest of the forecast period. The Small Craft Advisory (SCA) is in effect through Wednesday afternoon for the windier waters and channels around Maui County and the Big Island, and may be extended through Wednesday night.

The small, medium period south swell will keep surf heights elevated along south facing shores before declining Wednesday. A series of small, medium to long period south-southwesterly swells are expected Thursday through the weekend. Surf along east facing shores will remain rough and choppy and increase Wednesday, as trade winds increase. Surf along north facing shores will remain flat to tiny through the forecast period.

 

Natural Area Reserves System – Division of Forestry and Wildlife: Native Ecosystems Protection & Management


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

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.

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

 

>>> Northeast Pacific: There are no active tropical cyclone

Western East Pacific:

Invest 95E

Showers and thunderstorms associated with an area of low pressure located well west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula continue to gradually become better organized. Environmental conditions are favorable for additional development, and a tropical depression is expected to form on Wednesday while the system moves generally northwestward and then northward.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…high…90 percent
* Formation chance through 7 days…high…90 percent

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

 

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

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

 

>>> Northwest Pacific Ocean: 

Tropical Cyclone 09W…is located approximately 151 NM east-southeast of Ulelang

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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

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



Interesting:  Pollution Is Changing the Smells of Nature, With Risks for Wildlife

In Egypt, increasing temperatures are shrinking yields of aromatic jasmine flowers; in France, extreme drought has reduced the production of fragrant, night-blooming tuberose, a major ingredient in many perfumes; in Italy, climatic extremes are altering the characteristic floral, citrusy scent of bergamot.

But anthropogenic factors are also reshaping environmental smellscapes, a word coined in the 1980s to describe the totality of scents in a given geographic area, in ways that are far more subtle — and potentially much more harmful.

While humans largely rely on sight and sound in our interactions with each other and with the world around us, many other creatures rely on smells. Ants, for example, require scents for colony cohesion; turkey vultures let scent guide them to far-away carrion; and male moths use scent to find females hundreds of meters away. “Scent is very important because it mediates so many interactions within an ecosystem,” says James Blande, a chemical ecologist at the University of Eastern Finland.

Read More at: Yale Environment 360