The latest update to this website was at 1215pm Friday (HST)

 

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

0.92  Mohihi Crossing, Kauai
0.27  Waianae Valley, Oahu
1.66  Puu Alii, Molokai
2.08  Lanai City, Lanai
2.51  Wailuku, Maui
0.77  Piihonua, Big Island

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

16  Lawai, Kauai – ENE 
27  Kuaokala, Oahu – NE
20  Anapuka, Molokai – NNE
18  Lanai 1,  Lanai – NE
20  Ukumehame Gulch, Maui – NNE
24  Puu Mali, Big Island – NE 

 

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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 Unsettled weather will prevail

 

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Finally some clearing over the state…from west to east 

 

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Showers locally…some are heavy 

 

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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 partly to mostly cloudy early this morning, with a low temperature of 55 degrees at my place.

1218pm I can finally see a bit of blue skies here on Maui, although I’m wondering if the sunshine/warmth, might trigger more showers this afternoon…especially in the upcountry areas.

 

Weather Wit of the day: Winter Weather – Clime and punishment

 

Interesting weather webblog: Mauka Showers…Collecting Rainfall Data, Part 2 – “What you tink dis is, automation?”

 

>>> Highest Temperature Thursday, January 22, 2026 – 86 at Ochopee, FL
>>> Lowest Temperature Friday, January 23, 2026 – minus 34 at Badoura, MN

 

Hawaii’s Broad Brush Weather Overview:  Upper-level troughing over the Hawaiian Islands will begin to lift northeastward, leaving behind lingering low-level moisture, resulting in continued isolated shower activity over Maui County. Unsettled weather resumes this weekend, as moisture moves over the islands ahead of the next approaching frontal system. Trades return briefly by Tuesday as a surface high passes north of the islands. By the end of next week, another frontal boundary is anticipated to move over the Hawaiian Islands, potentially leading to more unsettled weather.

Hawaii’s Weather Details: Upper-level troughing will begin to lift northeastward, diminishing any remaining boundary over the Hawaiian Islands, and leaving behind lingering low-level moisture later today. The northeasterly flow will begin to veer easterly tonight, then southeasterly early Saturday morning, as a weak surface high builds just north of the islands, allowing isolated shower activity to predominately impact windward and mountain areas through the early portion of the weekend.

By the latter half of the weekend leading into next week, model guidance hints at another trough supporting another frontal boundary advancing northwest to southeast toward the islands. Moisture values have come down a bit compared to the previous 24 hours, now depicting upwards of 2 standard deviations above average.

Model guidance continues to showcase noticeable differences regarding the timing of the frontal boundary, with the European Model (ECWMF) arriving later than that of the American Model (GFS). Regardless, general consensus suggests the deepest moisture will remain north of the islands, which would ultimately limit any heavy rainfall and flooding concerns.

Conditions will begin to improve by late Monday into Tuesday, as the aforementioned frontal boundary exits to the east and a drier air mass quickly fills in its wake. As a result, trades will make a brief and transient return, persisting for a short period before weakening again by mid-week. By the end of the forecast outlook, latest model guidance indicates another frontal boundary approaching from the northwest, potentially ushering in a return to more unsettled weather. Additional analysis will be required to better determine the timing and impacts of this system.

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 stalled trough over the central waters will dissipate, keeping light to gentle east-northeast winds in the forecast. Easterly trade winds will continue as a high pressure system just north of the Hawaiian Islands drifts eastward. By Saturday wind directions will veer from a more southeasterly direction, as the high moves away from the islands on its eastward journey, and a cold front approaches the region from the northwest direction.

A weakening cold front moves near the islands from Sunday night through Monday. Larger differences in weather model forecast guidance on this next system may produce changes in the wind portion of the forecast. By the start of next week our weather conditions will briefly become easterly trade winds, the strength of the winds may change as this pattern evolves over time, and the next cold front approaches from the west.

A medium period north-northwest (330-340 degree) swell will continue to build into the region, producing advisory level surf heights for exposed north and west facing shores. Offshore buoy observations at buoys 51001 and 51101 are observing a 6 to 8 ft swell in the 11-13 sec period band. These swell observations support continued HSA conditions for affected shores.

Several additional northwest swells will move through the Hawaii region over the next 7-days. The current north-northwest swell will peak, then begin to decline by tonight into Saturday. The next small long period northwest (310-320 degree) swell will fill in over the weekend, keeping surf heights elevated. As this swell fades by Sunday night, another medium period, northwest (310-320 degree) swell builds into the region, peaking on Wednesday near advisory thresholds. Another overlapping large, long to medium period northwest (310-320 degree) swell builds in from Wednesday night onward, peaking above warning levels for the second half of next week.

Surf along east-facing shores will remain small into next week due, to the lack of persistent trade winds locally and upstream. South facing shores will also remain on the seasonably small side.

 

Windward Glory | Kaneohe Bay | Oahu, Hawaii



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 16P is located approximately 474 NM south of Suva, Fiji – Final Warning

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North Indian Ocean:  There are no active tropical cyclones 

South Indian Ocean:

Tropical Cyclone 17S is located approximately 194 NM north-northwest of Broome, Australia

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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:  In Hunt for Rare Earths, Companies Are Scouring Mining Waste

Over many decades, coal mining in West Virginia has exposed sulfur-bearing rocks to oxygen, creating a widespread problem that continues to plague the region: the draining of highly acidic water into streams and creeks, which are then rendered lifeless.

But a relatively new process developed by researchers at West Virginia University and Virginia Tech is providing hope for some waters plagued by acid mine drainage. The method, which captures the rare earths liberated by the fugitive sulfuric acid, not only cleans the streams. It also generates revenue to pay for the cleanup and provides a sustainable source of the critical metals needed to manufacture electric vehicles, wind turbines, and other technologies propelling the global transition from fossil fuels.

Three pilot facilities in West Virginia are each currently producing four to five tons of rare earth oxides a year. A larger facility is under construction at the enormous Berkeley Pit, a shuttered open-pit copper mine in Butte, Montana, where a company aims to produce 40 tons of rare earths a year from the pit’s billions of gallons of toxic wastewater. Combined with the output of other planned re-mining operations, such efforts, experts say, could obviate the need for new mines.

Read More at: Yale Environment 360