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Central Pacific Hurricane Center · tropical cyclones near Hawaii

Approaching Hawaiʻi

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Season ended Nov 30

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Central Pacific · CPHC

Updated every 6 hours

Pacific Wide · NHC

Eastern + Central basins

Sea Surface Temperatures

Ocean heat that fuels tropical cyclone development

Threshold

26.5°C/ 80°F

Minimum SST for tropical cyclone formation

Hot Zone

28°C+/ 82°F+

Most energy available, storms intensify rapidly

El Niño

Warm pool expands eastward

Increases hurricane risk near Hawaiʻi

2026 Season Outlook

Seasonal ocean and El Niño outlook

El Niño chance

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NOAA CPC

Persists into winter

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Through winter

Latest Niño-3.4

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Weekly anomaly

Loading the latest ENSO outlook from NOAA.

What this means for Hawaiʻi: El Niño weakens the trade winds and warms the central Pacific, favoring more tropical storms and hurricanes near the Hawaiian Islands. The 2015-16 super El Niño brought a record 16 Central Pacific storms, about three times the long-term average. Comparable strong El Niño years: 1982-83, 1997-98, 2015-16.

SourceNOAA CPC ENSO

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