torrential downpours

[ElysianWort]

Wow, I didn't see this coming! I bet Ino did.
First time in over a year that I haven't been able to go Kehena on a Sunday because of rain. It was/ is constant and steady.
Way way into flash flooding at 4:21 this afternoon in Hawaiian Acres.

[SBH]

Are you sure about that? That's the first minute after 4:20.

[ElysianWort]

I'm sure. No hallucination going on here. Just bliss. Rainy misty bliss. We need the moisture.

[Kapoho Joe]

Buckets and buckets of the stuff!!

[Kenney]

So great to have a real Puna rain! It's been a long while !

[randomq]

And now the milky way and a billion stars are shimmering in a clear sky! Gotta love Puna!

[MarkD]

Here is the site I use to get daily rainfall totals: National Weather Service website.

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/hydro/pages/...tation=HTO

Up until about a year ago, it would provide a real nice visual in bright green, showing both amount of rainfall month to date and daily totals. In past year I have been unable to access that. Called them once (hard to get thru); they said try different browser, that green version is still working...

Have a Mac and tried Safari, Firefox and Chrome. No luck with any of them. Usually just get text on monthly total. Sometimes get blue lines depicting range but you click on Aug it goes to Jan. Works poorly. Anyone have a tip here? Miss the green graph that provided such clear info on rainfall totals...

[TomK]

"And now the milky way and a billion stars are shimmering in a clear sky! Gotta love Puna!"

And at the same time, a little ironically, the MK observatories can't see a thing as they're covered in snow and ice with thick cloud overhead!

[glassnumbers]

Was raining super hard in Discovery Harbor, as well. It's so windy here that when it rains this hard, it does this weird thing where the rain consistently drifts in a white, ghostly mist, I've never seen that before but it's pretty cool.

Aloha

[ElysianWort]

Sounds like the sideways-Puna-rain phenom. It's like mother nature testing you to make sure you can handle moisture on every inch of every exposed surface.
That kind of thing used to happen way more out here. It was like a reminder of the old normal yesterday.