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Radar at 4:51 a.m. showed moderate to heavy rain over East Oahu falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour, according to the National Weather Service. More rain is developing south of the island ...
Similarly, The Weather Network and the Guinness Book of Weather Records quote 335 days with rain here while (Simons 1996: 303) suggests that rain falls on 360 days per year. The local tourist industry of Kauai has promoted it as one of the wettest places on earth, which it is. The rainfall at Waiʻaleʻale is evenly distributed through the year.
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, is a network of volunteer weather observers in the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas that take daily readings of precipitation and report them to a central data store over the Internet. The program is an example of citizen science.
The cyclone events for Hawaii can be long-lived, affecting the state for a week or more. [7] Kona lows produce a wide range of weather hazards for Hawaii. Among them are heavy rain, hailstorms, flash floods and their associated landslides, high winds which result in large surf and swells, waterspouts, and heavy snows on the higher mountains. [8]
The rain's peak intensity was from 6 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday, with several locations seeing more than 10 inches (25.4 centimeters), according to the National Weather Service. Rainfall at Lihue airport — the island's only official record-keeping station — broke a 1996 record with 3.65 inches (9.27 centimeters) for Thursday, said Derek ...
A flood advisory is in effect for Oahu through 12:45 p.m. today. At 9:40 a.m., radar showed heavy rain moving over East Oahu from the south. ... Radar at 9:52 a.m. showed rain spreading over Kauai ...
A rain gauge placed on the nearby Waialeale lake records daily rainfall [5] and regularly lands Kauai's peaks on the National Climatic Data Center's list of places averaging the highest annual rainfall. [6] This high rainfall makes reaching the summit difficult on most days. The rain is not the only barrier to reaching Kawaikini.