07-12-2015, 08:34 PM
Pog,
While I think of it, I would recommend looking at this web page, especially during the winter when weather is a little more variable:
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/current/
The page summarizes weather conditions at each observatory. Much of the time they're relatively consistent apart from wind speeds and humidity (that's the local topography effect), but check again on other days and you'll see some extraordinary differences. Sometimes, especially during the winter, those might be due to instruments failing (sometimes the anemometers get covered in ice and simply freeze up), that's just so you know they aren't always accurate. It's a tough environment up there and during bad storms it often requires interpreting all those numbers to figure out what's real and what isn't.
While I think of it, I would recommend looking at this web page, especially during the winter when weather is a little more variable:
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/current/
The page summarizes weather conditions at each observatory. Much of the time they're relatively consistent apart from wind speeds and humidity (that's the local topography effect), but check again on other days and you'll see some extraordinary differences. Sometimes, especially during the winter, those might be due to instruments failing (sometimes the anemometers get covered in ice and simply freeze up), that's just so you know they aren't always accurate. It's a tough environment up there and during bad storms it often requires interpreting all those numbers to figure out what's real and what isn't.