Weather in Hawaii

We will be on a ship at the end of February. We have heard the seas have been rough. Does anyone have an idea on what we can expect the weather to be like at this time? Are the recent rough seas unusual?

Weather in Hawaii

You are on a ship cruising hawaiian waters in the winter time.

This is the begining week of feb, and you are interested in what the weather will be like at the end of feb. And what the sea conditions will be.

You might monitor the NWS, but they are not going to be able to accuratly predict the ocean conditions three weeks down the road. They can take a wild guess.

Figure fairly good accuracy maybe three days ahead of time. They can look at their models, and give a prediction, and hope that the dynamics of the weather do not decide to change.

I would say that our current winter conditions are pretty much normal. Last year we were in a drought condition....no so this year.

Actually today and yesterday brought sunshine to the south shore. Might even be nice up north ,not sure, and our Kauai weather is supposed to improve for the next few days.

Denny

Weather in Hawaii

Yep. this is usual winter weather. There%26#39;s a reason the north shore of Oahu is ground zero for the mega surfing competitions.

No way to know just how it will be in 2 weeks. Today was beautiful weatherwise, but the weatherman predicted 10-15 ft waves on the north shore for today. It%26#39;s pretty flat on the east side right now.

Just got back from a cruise, the water was very choppy (we could feel it even on a large ship) but the last few days of our trip it got much better. Most of the time the deck was very unrelaxing because it was so windy.One of the days we could not even port in Hilo because of the choppiness. But on the islands itself the weather is really nice, even when it rains it is only for a little while, nothing to ruin an activity. The ocean water was a little colder than we thought it was going to be but it was easy to get used to.

Use this NWS website to keep up to date with weather and water conditions:

www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=hnl