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    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

    More graphics about Hawaii and climate change

    Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Hawaii, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.

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