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Tropical Storm Hone, whose name is Hawaiian for “sweet and soft,” drew near the islands Saturday with breezes that were expected to intensify — and increase the wildfire risk for drier parts ...
This image of the central Pacific, captured on Friday, Apr. 12, 2024, shows the storm with its bright-colored clouds spinning northwest of Hawaii (lower center). Intense rain was occurring in the ...
The cyclone events for Hawaii can be long-lived, affecting the state for a week or more. [7] Kona lows produce a wide range of weather hazards for Hawaii. Among them are heavy rain, hailstorms, flash floods and their associated landslides, high winds which result in large surf and swells, waterspouts, and heavy snows on the higher mountains. [8]
The Honolulu National Weather Service issued various flash flood watches and warnings. [2] The trough began dropping heavy rainfall over Hawaii on April 13. Floods damaged or destroyed 532 houses. The flooding knocked down trees and power lines, eroded many bridges and roads, and washed away crops, beehives, and livestock.
For this chart, the trend is expressed as zero degrees Fahrenheit (0˚F) on the left vertical axis and zero degrees Celsius (0˚C) on the right vertical axis. Each point on the graph represents the extent of the deviation of each temperature reading from this calculated trend. USCRN average temperature anomaly for contiguous United States
Tropical Storm Hone continued to move away from Hawaii's main islands Monday morning, leaving heavy rain and flash flooding in its wake, the National Hurricane Center said.
The U.S. National Weather Service reported in 2005 that, using a national 30-year average, more people die yearly in floods, 127 on average, than by lightning (73), tornadoes (65), or hurricanes (16). [6] Flash flood running into a canyon in the Negev, Israel. In deserts, flash floods can be particularly deadly for several reasons. First ...
Given Hone’s rain, fire weather conditions don’t appear to be as severe as those during last year’s fires, but if dry fuels like grasses and trees catch fire, they will quickly go up in flames.