The latest update to this website was at 825pm Friday (HST)

 

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

0.01  Mount Waialeale, Kauai
0.16  Manoa Lyon Arboretum, Oahu
0.02  Puu Alii, Molokai
0.00  Lanai
0.16  Hana AP, Maui
1.54  Honokaa, Big Island

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

25  Lihue, Kauai – NE
38  Kuaokala, Oahu – NE
27  Makapulapai, Molokai – NE
31  Lanai 1, Lanai – NE
36  Kealaloloa Rg, Maui – NNE
53  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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 A couple of cold fronts northwest

 

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Low clouds arriving along the windward sides…carried on the north to northeast winds

 

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Very few showers 

 

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:  I’m here at home in upper Kula, Maui

It’s mostly clear with some cloudy areas early this morning, with a very cold low temperature of 41 degrees at my place!

1205pm, mostly sunny and clear here on Maui, except for a few low clouds along the windward sides.

422pm, it’s a lovely winter day, warm in the sunshine, of which there’s lots, and cool in the shade. My high temperature here in upper Kula was 66.5 degrees, and at the time of this writing it is 63.8 degrees, with very dry air…46%

725pm, it’s mostly clear here in Maui County, with a few clouds along the windward sides, and radar shows a few light showers too. The air is dry, 61% RH…and the temperature has dropped to 46.4 degrees already this evening!

822pm, the temperature here at my place has dropped to 44.4 degrees, compared to the warmer 71 degrees at the Kahului AP at the same time.

 

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Interesting weather blog – Mauka Showers…Wet Season 2025-2026 – Mid-Term Update

 

>>> Highest Temperature Friday, January 16, 2026 – 87 at Indio, CA
>>> Lowest Temperature Friday, January 16, 2026 – minus 16 at Mount Washington, NH

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview: The dry and cool air most of us woke up to this morning, will become “modified” (warmer and more moist) through the weekend, as trade winds continue. Southeast winds will build in late Sunday through Tuesday, further increasing warmth and relative humidity values.

The next cold front looks likely to pass through much (or all) of the state Wednesday into Thursday of next week, bringing an increase in the chance of moderate to potentially heavy rain. But confidence is not high yet on exactly how far it will get into the state, or how impactful it will be in any particular area.

Hawaii’s Weather Details:  Trades (10-20 mph with gusts 20-30 mph) have become re-established, and will remain over the islands into Sunday. Very light showers have developed this afternoon, mainly in windward locations. Skies were partly to mostly cloudy windward and mostly sunny leeward.

An upper level ridge axis to our northwest will gradually move east and pass over the state through Monday afternoon. This will keep the atmosphere relatively stable, allowing for weak mainly windward and mountain howers through the weekend. Winds will become southeast Sunday and remain that way through Tuesday. This will bring enhanced moisture and a slight increase in showers, along with warmer temperatures.

Late Tuesday, winds will become weak and mainly southerly as the next cold front moves in from the northwest. The front should reach the western half of the state Tuesday night, then slow down, finally reaching the Big Island late Wednesday night or Thursday (model spread is pretty large on the exact timing).

Unlike the system we just had Wednesday night into Thursday which was followed by strong northerly winds and drier air, next week`s front is not expected to as strong. In fact, there is significant model spread on whether or not it actually makes it past Big Island and heads away to the east, or stalls and moves back over the state from east to west. That makes this a low confidence forecast Wednesday through next Friday.

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: A high pressure system to the northwest will move east for the next few days, and bring stable breezy to locally strong trade winds. The northerly winds currently in place over the region will veer to the northeast and then east through Sunday. By late Sunday into early next week, winds are expected to weaken and veer southerly again ahead of another cold front. Current long range guidance shows this next cold front could approach the western coastal waters by the middle of next week.

An extra large northwest swell will maintain large seas for exposed waters. A Small Craft Advisory (SCA) remains in effect for all Hawaiian waters for combined high seas, and winds to 25 knots. After tonight, the SCA will be in effect over the eastern half of the islands for trade winds strengthening above 25 knots heading into the weekend.

An extra large, medium to long period northwest (320-340 degrees) swell which peaked will hold before declining into the night. A High Surf Warning remains in effect for exposed north and west facing shores of Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and north facing shores of Maui. Additionally, a High Surf Advisory is in effect for west facing shores of the Big Island. This swell will gradually transition to become more northerly (350-010 degrees) as it fades through the weekend.

Surf along north and west facing shores will then linger near advisory levels Saturday, before another reinforcing northwest swell arrives Sunday into Sunday night. This swell looks to bring surf heights above advisory levels. The swell will then gradually decrease through Monday, before a WNW swell arrives Tuesday and peaks near advisory levels.

Surf along east facing shores will remain small, though will increase slightly into the weekend, as trades become re-established across the area. Additionally, some east facing shores sensitive to northerly swells may experience a slight uptick in surf heights this weekend, as the fading northwesterly swell becomes more northerly. No noteworthy swells are expected for the next few days for south facing shores.

 

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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 01W (Nokaen) is located approximately 242 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 14S (Dudzai) is located approximately 653 NM south-southwest of Diego Garcia

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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:  Recent Tundra Fires ‘Exceed Anything in Past 3,000 Years’

Wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were more active this past century than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a study recently published in the journal Biogeosciences.

The study was conducted in Arctic Alaska by an international team of researchers from Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, Romania and the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Toolik Field Station.

Angelica Feurdean, the study’s lead author and a senior researcher at Goethe University in Germany, said the team took a multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing fire history. Their findings point to record-high activity caused by increasing woody plants and drying soils, two consequences of warming temperatures.

“The interlinked changes across millennia mean recent fires are indicators of a system undergoing rapid transformation,” Feurdean said.

Read More: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Image: Photo by Marius Gaka
From left, researchers Angelica Feurdean, Graeme Swindles and Mariusz Gaka pause in the midst of wildfire smoke near Atigun Gorge in Alaska’s Brooks Range in summer 2015.