What's New

Recent community donations have covered another two months of hosting, and push notifications are coming back online. Huge mahalo to Peter W, D. Reeder, Jay Sullivan, and Pikake for chipping in to keep the site running and the alerts flowing. If you'd like to help us stay online past then, the Sponsor page has the details.

M4.5+ earthquakes in Hawai‘i now send a push notification the moment USGS posts the event, with a link to the Seismic page so you can see magnitude, depth, and the epicenter on a map. Earthquakes are a critical alert, so they go to every subscriber automatically, no toggle needed. If you don't have push turned on yet, you can subscribe from Settings.

At the request of the State of Hawai‘i, the HDOT highway streams and GoAkamai city traffic cameras that used to live on the /cameras page have been taken down.

The original goal of bringing them in was the same one behind the rest of the app: weather, hazards, surf, dams, road conditions are scattered across dozens of agency sites that don't link to or talk to each other, and pulling them into one familiar place makes it easier for residents and visitors to get a quick read on what's happening across the islands. We're sorry to see this one go.

Everything else on /cameras is unaffected: scenic webcams, the Honolulu Zoo and Waikiki Aquarium animal cams, and the Opala Hawai‘i convenience-center cams all keep running.

If your organization publishes a public feed and would prefer Pacific Watch to link out to your own site rather than embed it directly, please reach out to contact@pacificwatch.app, happy to adjust.

Cleanup pass on a few pages that were getting noisier or fuzzier than they should be.

• The top alert banner now groups repeating Honolulu Emergency Management updates. One water main break that triggered ten near-identical status pings will show as a single banner with "+N earlier updates" so you know it is active.
• The tsunami page used to flip to "Status Unknown" once any "no threat" bulletin was more than six hours old, even when nothing newer had happened. Extended to 24 hours, and added support for the NTWC phrasing "a tsunami is not expected" so Alaska/West Coast bulletins are recognized as cleared.
• The world map on the tsunami page now wraps - panning east or west keeps the earthquake marker visible instead of disappearing past the date line.
• The UV Index card on Weather is scrubable. Drag through the day or use arrow keys to see UV at any hour.
• The Ocean Temp sparkline has a "7-day trend" label, min/max temperatures on each line, and a "last updated" footer so you can tell at a glance what you are looking at.
• Sun card splits "Twilight" into separate Dawn and Dusk windows. The old single range covered the entire day.
• NWS alerts that mention an eruption now link straight to the live volcano cameras.
• Sea Surface Temperature on Hurricanes shows how today compares to the same day last year and the 10-year average.

Pacific Watch is now available in the App Store for iPad and Apple Silicon Mac. Same app you use on iPhone, with layouts that scale up cleanly on bigger screens. Search "Pacific Watch" in the App Store to install.

A handful of quiet fixes shipped alongside it:

• Faster Events page (one cached query instead of one per filter combo)
• Smarter event search ("farmer market" now matches "Farmers Market")
• UV Index card on Weather is now scrubable - drag through the day to see UV at any hour
• Ocean Temp sparkline finally explains itself: 7-day trend label, min/max, last-updated time
• Sun card splits Twilight into Dawn and Dusk (the old single range covered the entire day)
• Sea Surface Temperature on Hurricanes now shows how today compares to the same day last year and the 10-year average
• NWS alerts that mention an eruption now link straight to live volcano cams