This wet summer

[laurarice]

A friend has mentioned to me that this particularly wet summer [does everyone agree] might be due to all the water vapor created by the entry of lava into the sea.
It is a thought. Can anyone weigh in on why this might or might not be correct thinking?

Laura

[Wao nahele wahine]

Here in Waa Waa it hasn't been a particularly wet summer. I have been grateful for the amount of rain we have had the past several days....grass in particular, in addition to some other plants, were turning brown before the rain came back down here. We also have been affected very little with poor air quality. We are in our own microclimate that seems to have been spared the worst of the eruption side effects.

Wahine

[Lodestone]

Pretty dry so far in HS. Lawn was getting brown before the rains this week.

[laurarice]

I should have specified wet on the East Side.

Laura

[Wao nahele wahine]

Waa Waa and HS are on the East Side. Do you mean downwind of the flow?

Wahine

[Obie]

It has been wet along the flow and up toward Pahoa.

The ocean entry is creating it's own weather and Waa Waa among other places is going through the normal dry weather that has happened every year that I have lived on the Big Island !

[Carey]

With wild fires now on the slopes of Mauna Loa AND Mauna Kea, I think that wet is a very location based observation...
From May on, most of the island (including Keaau Town area) has experienced slightly below to very low average precipitation.
Pahoa town has had off the record precipitation...
There are 3 mechanisms that increase the water droplets... & all of them are converging around the eruption
Increased air & water temps increase the water vapor potential in the air...
Increased particulates (esp sulfates) in the air increases the formation of water droplets & rainfall
Increased water vapor in the air from the water vapor created at the ocean entry & eruption....

The downside of all the rain that the area of the island around the eruption is experiencing???
Areas on the west side of the island have been very dry due to the lack of water vapor left in the trade wind air...