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Old 01-06-2020, 01:40 PM
 
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Thank you to each and everyone of you for your responses. We actually ended up booking accommodations near VNP for 2 nights. We did it towards beginning of our trip so we can head back west and stay there for rest of the time.
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Old 01-12-2020, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Kahala
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Well - good thing you are not there today, Sunday 1/2 - not only an all day washout, roads are closed all over the place.
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Old 01-12-2020, 04:31 PM
 
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Well - good thing you are not there today, Sunday 1/2 - not only an all day washout, roads are closed all over the place.
Ob boy. Just saw some videos on youtube. It looks pretty bad. Hopefully it will get better by the time we visit in end of Feb.
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Old 01-13-2020, 01:11 AM
 
Location: Kahala
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Some will try to convince you it doesn't rain much - here are some actual facts from Jan 12 and the past 48 hours hours:

Saddle Quarry: 29 inches of rain

Hakalau: 26 inches of rain

Mauna Kea Summit: 24 inches of rain

Honolulu receives, on average, on an annual basis (that is a year for those challenged) about 17 inches of rain.
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Old 01-13-2020, 01:19 AM
 
Location: Na'alehu Hawaii/Buena Vista Colorado
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Some will try to convince you it doesn't rain much - here are some actual facts from Jan 12 and the past 48 hours hours:

Saddle Quarry: 29 inches of rain

Hakalau: 26 inches of rain

Mauna Kea Summit: 24 inches of rain

Honolulu receives, on average, on an annual basis (that is a year for those challenged) about 17 inches of rain.
You have to admit that this was a very uncommon event. Where I live in the Big Island we average 40 inches annually (yes that means per year). Doing the math, this means we normally average a little over 3 inches PER MONTH. In ONE DAY with this recent storm we got nearly 7 inches. So the facts from this extreme event have to be taken in context.
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Old 01-13-2020, 01:24 AM
 
Location: Kahala
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You have to admit that this was a very uncommon event.

Where I live in the Big Island we average 40 inches annually
I don't know - even if you deny global warming, it seems to more common than not - and the hurricanes/tropical storms that seem to be skirting the BI seem to be happening more frequently. This seems to be the new normal.

40 inches of annual rainfall? Yikes, that is more than Seattle
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Old 01-13-2020, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Na'alehu Hawaii/Buena Vista Colorado
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Global warming, climate change, etc. are not what was being talked about. Is this weather pattern the new normal? Hard to tell from just one event.

Yes, 40 inches of rain is two more than Seattle. but I certainly like all the tropical greenery we have and the abundance of fruit that grows without having to be watered.
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Old 01-13-2020, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Kahala
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Hard to tell from just one event.
Just one event?

200+ temperature records last year.

Despite a quite season in 2019, the shear number of hurricanes that headed towards Hawaii this past decade is far higher than seen in recorded history. Hurricane Lane alone produced over 50 inches of rain on the Big Island.

The water is warmer. Sea level is rising. The storms are stronger.

The amount of coastal erosion this year between the Windward side of Oahu and the North Shore is unprecedented.

The flooding on Kauai in 2018 was the worst ever seen since Hurricane Iniki.

This is just off the top of head - weather disasters are starting to become the new normal.
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Old 01-13-2020, 01:53 PM
 
Location: Moku Nui, Hawaii
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Well, Seattle takes a whole year to make 40 inches of rain, we can do it in a weekend. HA!

17 inches isn't even a foot and a half, Honolulu is almost a desert! No wonder Oahu is running out of drinking water.

Hilo gets around ten feet of rain annually, I think, and Mountain View and up that way manages even more. But, when getting rain in downpours of several inches per day or even per hour, it adds up quickly so there's still a few days left over for some sunshine.
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Old 01-13-2020, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Kahala
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No wonder Oahu is running out of drinking water.
That would be news to the people of Oahu, where since the time I have lived here, not a single mention of water conservation has come up.

It certainly isn't reflected in our water bills - while the sewer charge is very high, the actual water bill is ridiculously inexpensive. It would not surprise me if the fee for water is lowest in the United States for water usage.

From the Board of Water supply: In a normal day, about two billion gallons of rain fall on Oahu! Almost a third replenishes the island's aquifer, another third nurtures vegetation and evaporates and a third is discharged as runoff into the ocean.

They also state much of that can take up to 25 years to reach the aquifer.
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