12-14-2011, 05:48 PM
Yes, I knew it was rainy here, and I would still argue it keeps out the riff-raff. In December/January of 2007, I think, it rained for 40 days straight and my renters complained -- they really started moaning. I still find the rain kind of exotic and run out the front door and stare off into the distance when it really roars. I am basically a sun bunny though. If possible, I drop everything when the sun is out and run and jump in the water. You have to do that here because the fact that the sun is out NOW does not mean the sun will be out in two hours. That is why I don't like to commit to indoor activities in Hilo during the day. If it is sunny, I want to take advantage of it and I may just end up NOT going to that play you thought I was going to go see with you! Please make a note of it!
In my limited experience, visiting, the Hilo weather pattern is this: brief squall in the morning, possibility of glorious sunshine until about 4:00, at which point it can rain in a more serious way. If it doesn't do that, the next opportunity for rain is about 9 or 10 at night, just as you are about to retire. Perfect. And always pretty warm.
The current pattern is atypical based on my limited experience: Rain, interrupted by monsoonal rain,then a lull or two, and low, low temperatures for this area.
Still, super-glad to have the good fortune to live on one of the most remote and beautiful volcanic islands in the world. Hanohano moku o keawe! The birds twitter at the arrival of the malihini, the sea mist lands on my face and curls my hair, the lava flows again to the sea!
In my limited experience, visiting, the Hilo weather pattern is this: brief squall in the morning, possibility of glorious sunshine until about 4:00, at which point it can rain in a more serious way. If it doesn't do that, the next opportunity for rain is about 9 or 10 at night, just as you are about to retire. Perfect. And always pretty warm.
The current pattern is atypical based on my limited experience: Rain, interrupted by monsoonal rain,then a lull or two, and low, low temperatures for this area.
Still, super-glad to have the good fortune to live on one of the most remote and beautiful volcanic islands in the world. Hanohano moku o keawe! The birds twitter at the arrival of the malihini, the sea mist lands on my face and curls my hair, the lava flows again to the sea!