Super Grom Bobo Gallagher is One Brave Kid Bobo Gallagher is not your average 8-year-old. He spends his free time paddling on the open ocean and attending Zane Schweitzer’s youth program, the InZane Super Grom Program.ย This Maui local trained every weekendย in preparation for theย the OluKai Ho’olaule’a Standup Paddleboarding race this year.ย He was the youngest to enter the under-17 division.ย This grom may be young, but that […] Surf Katy Shipley | May 4, 2018 1 Comment
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Erupts Forcing Thousands to Flee their Homes [arve url="https://youtu.be/94gPXQTkU-Y"] Steven Agar | May 4, 2018 61 Likes 0 Tweets 0 Comments
Hawaiian Island of Kauai Just Smashed the 40-Year Standing National 24-Hour Rainfall Record The torrential rain that devastated parts of Kauai earlier this month couldย soon break the record for the most rainfall in American history, the National Weather Service said on Wednesday.ย The NWS says preliminary data indicates the Hawaiian island of Kauai broke a national 24-hour rainfall record during recent flash flooding. The agency’s Honolulu office said Wednesday a rain gauge in Waipa […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 26, 2018 1 Comment
Standup Paddleboarder Attacked by Shark off the Big Island of Hawaii A standup paddleboarder was attacked by a tiger shark on Saturday off the Big Island of Hawaii. According to CBS News, the victim remains hospitalized today with injuries to one of his arms and a loss of part of one leg. The victim was paddleboarding with his father at Kukio Beach near Hualalai when the duo were knocked off their […] SwellBrains | April 13, 2018 0 Comments
Study Reveals that the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ is way Larger than Previously Estimated | The Size of France The resultsย of a study published last Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, reveal that worldโs biggest collection of floating trash, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is actually 16 times larger than previously estimated and is still growing at what the researchers called an “exponential” pace. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, is an accumulation of junk that […] SnowBrains | April 6, 2018 0 Comments
Surfer in his 50s Dies after being Pulled Unresponsive from the Water at Sunset Beach, HI Yesterday at around 10:20 am, Honolulu Ocean Safety responded to an urgent call about an unresponsive surfer at Sunset Beach on the North Shore of Oahu. Many of the details about what happened are still unclear, but it appears a man in his 50s was pulled from the water, sent to a nearby emergency room in critical condition, and has […] Surf SwellBrains | April 2, 2018 0 Comments
Winter Storm Warning in Hawaii with over a FOOT of Snow Expected in the Mountains It’s snow joke, a winter storm warning is currently in effect in Hawaii with over a foot of snow expected. But nothing to worry about, it’s only snowing onย Hawaii’s high mountain volcano summits of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the Big Island. Both mountains are under a winter storm warning until Wednesday evening, with highs in the 30s and […] Weather Steven Agar | February 7, 2018 1 Comment
NOAA: Winter Weather Advisory for Hawaii Today & Tomorrow | 2-4″ of Snow Forecast NOAA has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Hawaii today that is calling for 2-4″ of snow on the 13,80′ Mauna Kea and 13,600′ Mauna Loa volcanos on the Big Island of Hawaii that expires tomorrow morning at 6am local time. Periods of snow and rain will continue, with the more intense precipitation falling in the form of snow. Additional […] Weather WeatherBrains | November 29, 2017 0 Comments