A multi-threat system known as a Kona storm is bringing heavy rain and damaging winds to Hawaii though Friday, in addition to the threat of heavy snow over the Big Island summits. T he National ...

The flash flood warning for Hawaii island has been extended ... and was centered 175 miles west of Kailua-Kona and 160 miles south-southwest of Honolulu. Hurricane-force winds extend outward ...

The National Weather Service (NWS ... that it had set the port condition for the seaports of Hilo and Kailua-Kona in Hawaii County to “Whiskey.” That condition is set when there are expected ...

Floods closed Highway 11 between Kona and Hilo ... weakened to a still-major Category 3 hurricane Saturday night, but it was far east of Hawaii and forecast to weaken into a depression before ...

The trade winds across Hawaii typically blow winds from the northeast, however, when a kona storm moves in, it will bring winds from the southwest or “kona” side of the islands, meaning leeward.