Pacific RISA

Pacific RISA PI Dr. Abby Frazier told The Associated Press and USA TODAY that a developing El Niño could amplify extreme weather around the globe. See below for more on El Niño and check out Pacific RISA's Pacific Island Fact Sheets on El Niño for detailed physical impacts on different sectors and projected trends in relevant climate variables for Hawaii, American Sāmoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, the eastern and western Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

https://www.pacificrisa.org/education-outreach/pacific-island-enso-fact-sheets/

El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed. That's the natural warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather around the globe.

*New Product Alert!* The inaugural Hawai‘i Annual Climate Report for 2025 has been released! This report summarizes rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions across the state over the past year, using plain language and easy-to-interpret maps and figures. See the interactive version here: https://lnkd.in/eQWmCErr and the flipbook version here: https://lnkd.in/ek3fVDZe.

Introducing the Inaugural Hawai'i Annual Climate Report 2025!

Published by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, this report summarizes rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions across the state over the past year, using plain language and easy-to-interpret maps and figures.

The goal of this report is to help connect communities, resource managers, and policy makers with the climate data behind what many experienced firsthand, while highlighting open-access tools and datasets that can support planning and decision-making across Hawai'i.

For the full report:
https://online.fliphtml5.com/rblc/2025-Climate-Report-Final/ =1

Visit the Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal with detailed, interactive maps to explore each island, and each ahapua'a:
https://www.hawaii.edu/climate-data-portal/annual-report/

Sign up for a monthly climate summary launching later this spring:
https://www.hawaii.edu/climate-data-portal/subscribe/

The report was compiled by the Hawai'i Climate Data Portal and Hawai'i Mesonet teams. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation, the State of Hawai'i Commission on Water Resource Management, and the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center.

Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center
University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program