12-15-2011, 03:40 AM
My point on the 40 days post was that yes, sometimes it does rain a lot, and there have been months of rain before (40 days is biblical, that is the reason sooo many people use it) sometimes there is no rain....a month or more of no rain. That is the reality of living here.
Yes, this is one of the wetter patterns, (there have been clear days in the last 40...about one day a week or so..I did laundry then!) but you have got to realize that to accumulate the rainfall average that we have on the east side, it must either rain about 0.5 inches each & every day, or there must be times of very heavy rain, followed by times of little to no rain. If it has not rained 0.5 inches each & every day you have lived here, then this is the catch-up time....
If you have lived here only during this long spell of rain, then you can look forward to some weather that is less rainy... maybe even a few days with no rain ;~)
Oh, and the weather does make it to the front page of the Trib Herald whenever there is a large change up in the pattern (like a month or more of one pattern or another...) and the snow fall & winter advisories usually make the front page & even the 10 o'clock news in Honolulu (as news, not in the weather report)....but they happen most every year...
ETA: OHHH, and one of the best things about this much rain? the weeds are sooo much easier to pull,,, much of the vine growth that has happened this last month are rooted in air & water, they just pull out like a zipper pull...OK, I didn't weed for a month....& now it is way past 'time to weed'. Luckily the weeds are coming up real easy... even the sleeping grass came up without a thorny fight!
Yes, this is one of the wetter patterns, (there have been clear days in the last 40...about one day a week or so..I did laundry then!) but you have got to realize that to accumulate the rainfall average that we have on the east side, it must either rain about 0.5 inches each & every day, or there must be times of very heavy rain, followed by times of little to no rain. If it has not rained 0.5 inches each & every day you have lived here, then this is the catch-up time....
If you have lived here only during this long spell of rain, then you can look forward to some weather that is less rainy... maybe even a few days with no rain ;~)
Oh, and the weather does make it to the front page of the Trib Herald whenever there is a large change up in the pattern (like a month or more of one pattern or another...) and the snow fall & winter advisories usually make the front page & even the 10 o'clock news in Honolulu (as news, not in the weather report)....but they happen most every year...
ETA: OHHH, and one of the best things about this much rain? the weeds are sooo much easier to pull,,, much of the vine growth that has happened this last month are rooted in air & water, they just pull out like a zipper pull...OK, I didn't weed for a month....& now it is way past 'time to weed'. Luckily the weeds are coming up real easy... even the sleeping grass came up without a thorny fight!