The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-12
CaspaF Whitney on Climate Of The
Islands.
ALL MUST TAKE EXERCISE
Trades-Sea Breezes-R ains-Phys-
iQue of Whites Born Here-The
Industrial Chances.

n Harper weekly June IL. 1881
. Now as TO climate. \ great deal is
said by certain white residents in favor
|. of the Hawaiian climate when the
n Islands are under discussion as q re-
= sort for tourists and other pleasure or
! health seekers; and a great deal is said
by the same gentlemen to its discredit
when discussed as a field for white.
q and especially for American. labor.
y In point OF fact, the climate OF Ha-
- waii is perhaps not excelled anywhere
else on earth. Large enough as the
n Islands are to have a character of their
q own, ard still in no way To neutraiize
Il the peculiarly desirable quality or
oceanic environment, the Hawaiian
climate is midway between temperate
r. and tropical; tender, yet not enervat-
n ing; breezy, though not boisterous;
= with sunshine from which you need no
protection, and a rainfall that does not
become monotonous.
A veritable lard of sunshine and
n breeZes. whose temperature you may
= vary as you choose from sea level up
- TO Mauna Kea 03,S25 feet or Mauna
LOa G3,675). You may leave one side
OF an island in a rain-storm. and find
n sunshine on the other; but though
- there is considerable variety in this re-
spect, the temperature is about uni
form, and at sea-level is ~ degrees
n Fahrenheit. Taken by the year. this
y average does not vary over a degree
u one way or the other; taken by the
- month, the average of the coolest
u month is 60 degrees, and OF the warm
- est as degrees. The extreme lowest
n temperature is so degrees. the highest
- 90 degrees; and either of these figures
RI has been reached only once in the last
r dozen years. The average daily range
. at Honolulu is II degrees, and its usual
. temperature i several degrees cooler
than the average of a number of other
cities in the same Enthusiastically
Havana.
The northeast trade winds are the
saving feature of the Hawaiian
Islands, impaTting uniform tempera-
ture, healthfulness, and tonicity. The
record for fifteen years shows that the
least number of trade-winds days per
year was 225-the greatest 3Ol-the
mean 25S. January has a normal av-
srage OF II days of trades. which. as
\ the sun moves north, increase until the
normal average reaches 29ia days in
July and August, ard then begins a
corresponding diminution through the
autumn months to the end of the year.
Oahu and Kauai, of the group. are
mostly influenced by these trade winds.
which may there be said to- blow for
s. nine months OF the year. Maui. which
is larger, .has few places to leeward.
like The town of Lahaina, for instance.
where there is "A regular land and sea
breeze; ard Hawaii has a land and sea
breeze all the year round. The winter
is the least desirable part of the Ha-
waiian year, for at this time the north
east trade winds are interrupted. and
winds from the south and west often
prevail for weeks. The south wind.
which the natives aptly call the sick
wind brings rain ard often ailment
to susceptible foreigners; but there are
never hurricanes, and only rarely
lthundcr-stoTms. This is the time. too.
Of the "KoHI storms (makani kona)
which come ont of the south and west,
and sometimes for week hold sec
ton in the gloom of rain and wind
~ before they finally wear of to the
northwest and the country smiles
again TIE most delightful months OF
tho ycSI are April, May, June. July and
September. The yearly average rain
fall 81 Oahu is about 40 inches; oi
IN Maui, - tn 80; OF Kauai, SO; and on
Hawaii. with its dry side and its very
wet side. I; varies so much as to neces-
state more detailed figures; in the
Kona coffee belt, on the dry side. the
average rainfall is about GO inches: in
- the Olaa district il is 115 inches; IN
- the IIiio forest, 200 inches; and immed
lately around the town OF Hilo, from
- $50 10 $50 inches.
What particularly impressed me II
the Hawaiian climate-and / cite my
. experience because / do not, as a rule
I care for these too balmy climes-wa:
\ the absence Of an eneryating quality
J, some say that such an influence doe.
attend upCn long residence on the isl
.luds, but my Investigations sugges
that only white women who never TAKE
,ss exercise are so affected. The Hawai-
Ut ian-born children of foreign pareut
IAN bloom like the foliage under which
nd they play; II would be difficult Indee,
,ic- 20 improve on the physique OF tn
led boys and young men born OF white
IN parents III Hawaii, whom j saw in tn
= Tacing-shelis, in the yachts, in swim
for ming, and ON the streets OF Honolulu
r-r Those IN the United States who Teall,
wish to see what Hawaiian climate
does for children of white parentaE
should view the members of the "Ha
., Waiian Club" at Yale or at Harvard
ger It Is u notable fact that the white
born Hawaiians who have come @
American universities have been niue
- above the average in physique. as tn
athletic records attest; and / have d
mind four sons of one distinguish
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