Fall Rain

[Kapohocat]

Is our fall rain starting already? What are the predictions - any one know?

[AlohaSteven]

I'd go out on thin ice to make a prediction, but here in Alaska there is no thin ice as yet to go out on.

Last week we went up past Tok, Chicken, and the Poker Creek US-Canada border station into the Canadian Yukon as far as the confluence of the 40-Mile and Yukon rivers. A bazillion little ponds are gassing off bubbles of methane from permafrost melting down underneath but there was no ice to be seen, not a bit, anywhere except up on some retreating glaciers. Nights are cold enough now to turn the leaf colors but there has been almost no rain and zero snow so far except up on mountaintips. Sunniest and warmest summer ever, here; the change of seasons from summer to winter is at least a month delayed this year here compared to the usual pattern in years past.

Greenup (when the plants leaf out in spring) came about three and a half weeks earlier this year, too. Maybe that longer growing season assists to account for this year's new world record cabbage at the fair: 127 pounds.

Maybe all the precipitation which is not yet falling in Alaska is coming down in Puna?


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[Devany]

We (just N. of Hilo) haven't had any rain since last friday except for a brief (5 minutes) morning shower very early on Sunday. This has been the driest month of all so far.


Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

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[DanielP]

I have read that this is an El Nino year, which generally means a drier Winter for Hawaii. So, Perhaps, only 140 inches for upper Puna.

Dan

[Sandra A.]

hahahahaha only 140 inches this year. Well I see it this way, at least we aren't on water rations like much of the mainland. It took some years, but I am all good with our excessive rainfall here thank you.

[james weatherford]

"on water rations like much of the mainland"

huh?

Floods in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina.
But, of course, that is east of the Rocky Mountains and even east of the Mississippi River and far beyond the universe of "most" Kalifornians.


James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[asly]

We've had one of the wettest summers in years here in MT. Our foothills and grasslands stayed green almost into September, usually browned out by end of July. On the other hand, had a really dry HOT summer on the WA Olympic Peninsula where our farm is, which was weird.

[Kapohocat]

I found it !

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/pr...xhw40.html