Hawaii mountains to see snow after rare blizzard warning

HONOLULU — The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard informing for mountains connected Hawaii’s Big Island, saying upwind gusts of supra 100 mph (160 kph) and 12 inches (30.4 centimeters) oregon much of snowfall were possible.

The informing successful effect done Sunday greeting for Big Island summits said “travel should beryllium restricted to emergencies only” and those who indispensable question should person a wintertime endurance kit.

Blizzard warnings for Hawaii are rare, but not unheard of. The Big Island has upland peaks that scope astir 14,000 feet (more than 4,200 meters). CNN reported that the past blizzard informing issued by the National Weather Service successful Hawaii was much than 3 and fractional years ago.

The menace of snowfall successful Hawaii comes arsenic places successful the Rocky Mountains much utilized to achromatic wintery upwind are adjacent to breaking records for days without snow. Denver’s precocious somesthesia Wednesday deed 73 degrees Fahrenheit (23 degrees Celsius), tying the grounds acceptable successful 1973.