Hurricane Lowell brought damaging surf, strong winds, and flooding rains to portions of the Hawaiian Islands yesterday and last night but is it quickly exiting the region today. While recovery efforts begin in Hawaii, the Aloha State and the rest of the U.S. mainland can have a sigh of relief; while the typical peak of the hurricane season is approaching, the National Hurricane Center says there’s no threat of tropical cyclone formation anywhere in the Central Pacific or the Atlantic for the next 7 days.

Hurricane Lowell is lifting northward away from the islands  now and the National Hurricane Center has cancelled the Hurricane Warning for Kauai County and the Tropical Storm Warning for Oahu. Southerly winds are quickly declining across the island chain but will remain breezy and locally gusty through the remainder of the day, especially on Kauai County.

According to the National Weather Service, a moist southerly flow will maintain the threat of flooding through at least today and possibly through Wednesday in some areas. Trade winds will slowly build over the state late Wednesday and Thursday, but conditions will remain somewhat wet. Drier trade
wind weather will develop Thursday night into Friday.

 

 

According to the National Hurricane Center, no tropical cyclone formation is expected in the Central Pacific or the Atlantic basin for at least the next 7 days. The National Hurricane Center is tracking two new areas of concern in the eastern Pacific including one which is likely to become a tropical storm south of the Baja California.  Even if that system were to head west towards Hawaii, it would take more than a week to get there.