r/Hawaii • u/radicalbot • 6h ago

Politics Hawaii voter turnout just 15% a week ahead of Election Day

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Reminder to your ballots in as soon as possible!

Remember all ballots must arrive by the deadline on November 3rd not just postmarked.

Candidate voter guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/1xemfhq/hawai%CA%BBi_2026_progressive_candidate_voter_guide/

Amendments voter guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/1xeo181/hawai%CA%BBi_2026_constitutional_charter_amendments/

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r/Hawaii • u/giantspeck • 17h ago

Weather Watch Weather Watch: Pattern shift will bring heavy rain to the islands this week

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Overview

A significant change in the weather pattern is likely to bring heavy rain and the risk of flash flooding to the islands this week, along with the potential for severe thunderstorms.

A surface trough will set up over the islands over the next couple of days and linger through early next week. This trough will funnel moisture from the deep tropics for several days, resulting in heavy rain and an elevated risk for flash flooding. A series of disturbances will move along the surface trough during the week, introducing sufficient atmospheric instability to elevate the risk for strong to severe thunderstorms, which could cause additional flooding and damaging winds.

Because of the anticipated complexity of this weather pattern, it remains too early to determine the exact timing, location, and extent of potential impacts to the islands. Right now, the heaviest rainfall is expected to impact Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Maui, and Lanaʻi. The heaviest rainfall is expected to occur from Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday, but additional rainfall could linger into the upcoming weekend, extending the threat of flooding into early next week.

Caveats

  • The anticipated weather pattern over the next few days is expected to be highly complex.
  • There remains a high degree of uncertainty among the models regarding the timing and extent of impacts.
  • Although the heaviest rain is expected from Tuesday through Thursday, it could continue through the upcoming weekend.
  • Tropical Storm Olana (03C) is currently active to the southwest of Hawaiʻi but is expected to dissipate by Wednesday.
  • Moisture from Olana’s remnants could contribute to rainfall totals this week.

Potential rainfall totals

Through Wednesday afternoon:

  • Niʻihau: 1 to 1.5 inches
  • Kauaʻi: 1 to 2 inches
  • Oʻahu: 3 to 5 inches (isolated up to 8 inches)
  • Molokaʻi: 2 to 3 inches
  • Lanaʻi: 1 to 3 inches
  • Kahoʻolawe: 1 to 2 inches
  • Maui: 2 to 3 inches
  • Northeast Hawaiʻi: 1 to 1.5 inches
  • Southwest Hawaiʻi: 0.5 to 1 inch

Official resources

For Tropical Storm Olana

National Hurricane Center

For non-tropical impacts from the developing pattern

National Weather Service

Hawaii State Civil Defense

Unofficial information

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r/Hawaii • u/annoyingly_annoying • 6h ago

Question Morning traffic

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Howzit, those on the westside is it just me or is the early morning commute to town gotten worse over the last month? I would leave Makaha 0445-0500 roughly every morning for years and get sand island in about 50 mins to an hour. Now I leave a lil earlier seems get traffic building Maili slow thru Nanakuli then the usual jam up on freeway now takes me hour 15 hour 20min. If get accident I understand. Did the city adjust the stop lights? An extra 40,000 people move westside? I just seeing if anyone else noticed or if im just losing it.

Mahalo

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r/Hawaii • u/Comfterbul-1095 • 14h ago

Education Q from Kamaʻāina: do these words have *exactly* the same vowels? (Linguists welcome)

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Loco moco: Hawaiian plate lunch dish

Ono Pono: Closed UH Manoa eatery

I'm a linguistics grad. I grew up on Oahu, studied language through UHM's Interdisciplinary Studies Department, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Sociolinguistics in 2000-merfa-merr. 👵 So I have SOME context for saying the following:

Reading these aloud to myself, with no particular point to make or axe to grind... the vowels hit me differently. I hear [oʊ] with a very short but fairly distinct horseshoe u for every O in loco moco, but they're far more pure [o]s in Ono Pono (RIP -- never should've printed that quote from your publicly-identifying-as-an employee in Ka Leo, saying that all the unhoused are good for is collecting recycling - for real, look that Sith up... k den, digression over).

I THINK that this stems from the fact that (ʻ)Ono Pono is purely ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, meaning that it doesn't receive the diphthong that Americanized words and vowel sounds do. With the plate lunch, besides ubiquity (leading it to be further influenced by the superstrata language of English), the Cs in loco moco betray BOTH words' linguistic roots as decidedly NOT Hawaiian.

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Whatchoo tink? How you say dese?

🤙 Mahalo fo yo toughts!

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r/Hawaii • u/ConstableCornelius • 6h ago

Article Explains Details Question for teachers of hawaii public schools?

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Aloha everyone! I’m wondering if anyone has submitted a sabbatical proposal to the Hawaii DOE and had it accepted. If so, would you mind sharing what you did for your sabbatical and what your proposal was about? Any information you would mind sharing would be greatly helpful.

Feel free to share here if you’re comfortable, or send me a direct message if you’d prefer to keep it private. I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences and getting some ideas. Mahalo!

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r/Hawaii • u/Capable-Power-7300 • 20h ago

Question Where to park for work in Waikīkī?

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Just got a hotel job near the Kalakaua statue between Kuhio & Kalakaua Ave and I just found out they don’t have employee parking (guess I picked the wrong hotel to work at lol). Was wondering where everyone else parks or what the rates were for people who pay monthly for parking structures. I only work 3 days a week on weekends so hopefully trying to not spend a fortune on parking.

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