Wind Advisory for Maui County/parts of Hawaii island. Speeds could reach 20-30 with locally higher gusts up to 50 mph thru ...

We have a First Alert for portions of Maui County and Hawaii Island that are prone to stronger winds. A Wind Advisory may be ...

The National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch for the leeward side of all Hawaiian isles, effective from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday afternoon. Weather officials say trades ...

The leeward side of the island is facing drier conditions than the windward side, with severe drought in the Kiehei area and moderate drought in and around Lahaina. Click map below for larger version.

Weather officials have placed the leeward areas of the Hawaii islands under a red flag warning due to a combination of gusty winds and low humidity, effective from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today.

Nearly 16 percent of Maui County was in a severe drought on ... where the damage from fires was most concentrated, is on the drier, leeward side of the island that tends to receive less rain ...

Areas in “severe drought” include Maui’s leeward side — where the now burned town of Lahaina is — while the windward side is considered “abnormally dry. ...

We took a boat from Maalaea to Lahaina, and the captain told me the ocean conditions were unusual because Lahaina is the leeward side of the valley isle; and normally, the mountains block the ...

Just 20 minutes south of Kapalua, in Lahaina on Maui’s leeward side, Valkirs found 50 acres in the ahupua’a (or subdivision) of Ku’ia largely protected from the wind, which he leased from ...

Maui is reeling from wildfires that devastated the Hawaiian island last week. They have taken at least 106 lives and caused more than US$5.52 billion dollars of damage. But did the fires take ...

Maui is reeling from wildfires that devastated the Hawaiian island last week. They have taken at least 99 lives and caused more than US$5.52 billion dollars of damage.