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2015 has been a unique weather year based on my limited experience. This summer has been by far the most miserable with little or no trade winds Jun through SEP and high humidity. Now that Oct has rolled around it feels like a normal Feb, except a few degrees warmer. So thankful to have some trade winds again!! Then today I was checking out the weather satellite imagery/tracks and see a tropical depression (Hurricane Oho Cat I now) headed NE past BI on its way to Canada! That's a first! I've never seen a weather track like that before. Have any of you?
I suppose we can chalk up the latest patterns to El Nino. I'm hopeful these latest extremes are part of a larger pattern. But I suspect that the human race has gotten too big and now its time for mother nature to put us in our place. I sincerely hope that whatever happens, the rain keeps falling reliably on my lots!
Cheers!
Edited to fix a typo, added Hurricane Oho reference, fixed months - it's October!
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It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
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It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine liv'in on da Big Island
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And it may have just been a very unusual summer. But even stranger weather has been known to occur in Puna, Pahoa specifically. In the early 1900's it hailed 1" little ice chunks in town.
Sorry no link, have read about it in the past numerous times.
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Did you ever notice many of the older houses around here have chimneys? This make me think the temperature was cooler decades ago when these houses were built.
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I thought those old chimneys were for cooking.
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beejee,
I agree. Been here a couple of decades now and have not experienced a summer like this. Lots of people at work, many lifetime residents on the Big Island, agree this has been one weird summer. And no, I don't remember tropical cyclones forming south of us and heading NE. That's a new one for me.
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The water temps around the island have been record breaking high (el Nino to extreme) with much of the eastern Pacific 2-3C above normal...and we have had ocean water temps near 30C (86F)
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/an...anim.shtml
This is one indicator that is fairly well documented, as mariners have checked and logged the Pacific temps from the western exploration time on...
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Oho shot off towards Canada like a dose of salts. Very impressed by how quickly it took off after hanging around for so long!
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Oho shooting off to the northeast about 300 miles overnight was startling. The jet stream has been getting more turbulent over the past couple years. It used to be straight and steady. Lately, it has starting having these popping bubble patterns forming. It could be this past summer was just a busy hurricane season, combined with a big El Nino. The fall seems to be starting like usual, although the temperature at night has dropped quickly. If there is a permanent change, it is east side Hawaii island having more distinct seasons: hot and wet summer, wet fall, wet and cooler winter, wet and warmer spring.
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