A multiday drenching rainfall event has set up across the Aloha state this week. Although this pattern may help to improve the drought levels across the region, it will come at the risk of flash flooding.
A multiday drenching rainfall event has set up across the Aloha state this week. Although this pattern may help to improve the drought levels across the region, it will come at the risk of flash flooding . Trouble is brewing in paradise, Accu Weather meteorologists say. Residents and vacationers across the islands of Hawaii will continue to be drenched by rounds of heavy rain through the rest of this week as a feature referred to as a Kona low is expected to continue circulating over the islands.
Heavy snow will pile up on the summits of the Big Island. A Kona low is an area of low pressure that typically sets up to the west or northwest of the state and ushers in south-to-southwest winds across the Hawaiian Island chain, spreading tropical rain across the region. The south-to-southwest winds starkly contrast the prevailing east-northeast trade winds that occur most often
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