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Rainfall in a well-developed Kona storm is widespread and more prolonged than in the usual cold-front storm. Kona storm rains are usually most intense in an arc, extending from south to east of the storm and well in advance of its center. Kona rains last from several hours to several days.
Kailua-Kona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States.It's most commonly referred to simply as Kona (a name it shares with the district to which it belongs), but also as Kona Town, and occasionally as Kailua (a name it shares with a community on the windward side of Oʻahu), thus its less frequent use.
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]
This photo provided by Kauai County, Hawaii, shows the flooded Wailua River area near Smith’s Tropical Paradise, in Kauai County, Hawaii, Friday, April 12, 2024, when heavy rainfall caused flooding.
The Hawaii Climate Data Portal—set to go live today—is an open-source platform with easy public access to reams of climate data and information along with data products, climate tools, links ...
After bringing widespread heavy rain to Hawaii as well as blizzard conditions to the state's mountain peaks this past weekend, a storm system known as a Kona low is expected to continue pounding ...
Systems such as this Kona low from November 4, 1995 bring Hawaii much of their annual rainfall. Snow, although not usually associated with tropics, falls at higher elevations on the Big Island, on Mauna Loa as well as Mauna Kea, which reaches an altitude of 13,796 feet (4,205 m), in some winter months. Snow only rarely falls on Maui's Haleakala.
Outside of the continental U.S., Hawaii is also dealing with a "Kona storm" that has already dropped double-digit rainfall totals over some parts of the islands, with more to come through Saturday.