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I see in the extended forecast that Honolulu is supposed to get rain showers most of this upcoming week. I have some friends going there next week and they are afraid that the whole week they are there will be ruined by rain?
When it says rain is in the forecast, does it usually mean that it will rain the entire day?
I always tell visitors never to check the weather forcast. I live 5 minutes away from where I work and sometimes it will be pouring at my house all morning but at work it will be dry and sunny. Unless it is a large storm, you can usually find a place on the island where it is sunny. Also, weather forecasts may say it will be rainy because it will rain for a few minutes and then stop.
I heard that this winter season 2010/2011 was a strong La Nina year (supposedly a lot more rain for Hawaii). Does anyone really notice a difference between what the weather guessers say and what actually materializes?
It's really hard to say because first of all, the weather guessers generally talk about getting rain on the windward and mauka areas, but where I live we are neither. So, we just take it day by day. Even looking at the clouds overhead is no indication of whether or not it will rain on us. Also, the weather guessers on tv concentrate on Oahu, and we are on the BI. Thirdly, the amount of rain in just our subdivision can vary greatly from the lower to the higher altitudes. When we measure rainfall at our house, it does not accurately reflect the amount of rain our neighbors got.
The good news is that we got a couple of inches of rain down here near South Point over the last couple of weeks and everything has really greened up. After experiencing an extreme drought, any rain is quite welcome!
Rain in Hawaii is rarely an all day type of thing. It is usually a very short but heavy rain. Frequently very localized, too. Sometimes, though, we do get several days of rain where it just sort of sits and drizzles on us but that's not the usual sort of rain. Occasionally, we get several days worth of downpours instead of drizzles, but most of the rain just soaks into the ground and disappears. Generally, where ever there's rain, there's rainbows, so it's not all bad.
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