lack of rain

[mac nut]

I have been here a few years now and have been through dry periods before. its been about a week now with very little rain in HPP. Just curious as to previous dry periods. anyone remember a prolonged period of no rain and what is the longest period of no rain you can recall for puna?

[bananahead]

40+ days in lower Puna is not unheard of, in upper Puna it usually rains a bit at night during these dry spells...

good indicator of the lack of rain is to look at the color of the Seaview lawn... getting very tan lately

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[Carey]

Winter of '05-06 there was almost a full month with no rain & there were wildfires around Puna, even some in HPP.... then came March of '06 was the torrential 40 days of rain, including a 20" day...

[Mimosa]

In 1977 - there was a dry spell of 8 months 3 weeks.

[Punaperson]

November 2 2000, I recorded over 30" of rain at my house( about 750' elevation ). It may have been more, but the bucket I used for a rain gauge over flowed. It didn't rain another single drop until mid-April 2001. It was like someone turned off the faucet. There was a day when I saw fires on Maku'u, Kaloli, and behind me in Hawaiian Acres. A very scary time.

[mac nut]

thanks for the replies, kind of puts a one week of no rain in perspective. I cant imagine how my plants would look after a couple months of no rain or my catchment tank

[Midnight Rambler]

Winter of 1994-95 it didn't rain for nearly three months even in Volcano, where it's normally much wetter. Naturally it rained immediately after we finally gave in and had water hauled up to fill our tank. Then in 1997 it rained literally nonstop for over three months.

[pahoated]

This demonstrates the variation in micro climate here. Pahoa has had rain during the night for the past 3 or 4 nights. Heard about a spot in HPP that gets almost no rain, this must be it. This is at similar altitudes and only about 10 miles away.

"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"

[MarkP]

Damaged my liner a couple of weeks ago when putting a submersible pump in my larger 10' dia tank to pump water into my 275 gal tote that supplies my system. Banged the pump against the side a bit and thought "Whoops. Better be careful". Come to find out a few days later that I had damaged the liner in that instant. Re-plumbed my system to draw from the large tank like I should have done when I completed the large tank, filled up the tote and a few barrels, and was drawing the large tank down through daily use in preparation for patching (could have done that days ago) but sub-consciously I was delaying until I could put a whole new liner in. We're talking 6 mil black plastic so first it's cheap and second there may be other holes and damage that would make changing the whole thing advisable.

Woke up to over a foot more water in the tank overnight.

[MarkP]

Dumped over a foot of water on the ground and changed my liner while getting sprinkled on. Watch now, it won't rain for a month....