Watch this introductory 3 minute video on the formation, process, and consequences of a hurricane. 

Island specific Hawaiian cloud charts which include cloud and wind names in English and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.

Google Drive

This interactive mapping tool is used to view, analyze, and share track historical hurricanes from the NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 and NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information IBTrACS data sets.

Website | Tutorial

Hurricane Tracking Chart

The PacIOOS Voyager can show current hurricanes and drought information under the Hazards layers. Follow this link to learn more.

The National Drought Mitigation Center provides reports on drought events for each island pulled from linked articles and community scientists using the CoCoRaHS volunteer network below. Follow this link to learn more. Students can see their observations used at a national level.

Follow this link to learn about CoCoRaHS, a grassroots volunteer network committed to measuring and mapping precipitation in local communities. 

Maps and data outputted from the O'ahu Community Heat Assessment, led by the City & County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability & Resiliency.

Tracker (shows heat index maps)

Community Heat Assessment Report 

The US Department of Agriculture and US Forest Service created the Tree Canopy Viewer to help measure carbon sequestration, but it also offers an Urban Heat Index layer. Useful for the other islands.

Tree Canopy Viewer

Introduction Page