Climate change in Hawaii
Climate change is affecting locations like Hawaii in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, greater health risks from humid heat, and drought.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Hawaii are at risk in a warming world.
Hawaii's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Hawaii in summer
Warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers
Warming boosts moisture, making storms wetter, stronger, and costlier.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
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