Does hawaii have hurricanes?

Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each year, although as many as fifteen have occurred, such as in the 2015 season; rarely do these storms actually affect Hawaii. Earlier windstorms that struck Hawaii were not labeled as hurricanes. read more

Hurricane Julio, further to the east of Iselle, looks to skirt to the north of the islands but the uncertainty in its track includes the potential to brush Maui and the other islands to the northwest of the Big Island as a tropical storm. read more

Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each year, although as many as fifteen have occurred, such as in the 2015 season; rarely do these storms actually affect Hawaii. read more

Hawaii has been, and will be in the future, hit by hurricanes. The key, at least climatologically speaking, is the direction of the storm's approach. As you can see in the track map above, virtually all hurricanes near the Hawaiian Islands since 1950 have approached from the southeast, south, or southwest. read more