The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-07-14
Caspar Whiiaty % Climate Of The
Islands.
ALL MUST TAKE EXERCISE
Trades-S-a -Rsins-Phys-
ioue Of whit. 80 Form H-re-Th.
Industrial Chances.
(Caspar Whitney's Hawaiian Letter In
Harper's Weekly June II, 1891

tCaspar whitney's Hawaiian Letter In
Harper's Weekly June II, 1897
Now as to climate. A great deal Is
said by certain white residents in favor
of the Hawaiian climate when the
Islands are under discussion as 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,
and especially for American, labor.
In point of fact, the climate Of Ha-
wall is perhaps not excelled anywhere
else on earth. Large enough as the
Islands are to have character of their
own. and still in no way to neutralize
the peculiarly desirable quality OF
oceanic environment, the Hawaiian
climate Is midway between temperate
and tropical; tender, yet not enervat-
ing: breezy, though not boisterous;
with sunshine from which you need no
protection, and a rainfall that does not
become monotonous.
A veritable land of sunshine and
breezes, whose temperature you may
vary as you choose from sea level up
to Mauna Kea G3,S25 feeD or Mauna
Loa Q3,675). You may leave one side
of an island in rain-storm, and find
sunshine on the other; but though
there is considerable variety in this re-
spect, the temperature is about uni
form. and at sea-leyel is "a degrees
Fahrenheit. Taken by the year, this
average does not vary over a degree
one way or the other; taken by the
month, the average of the coolest
month is 60 degrees, and of the warm
est rs degrees. The extreme lowest
temperature Is so degrees, the highest
80 degrees and either of these figures
has been reached only once in the last
dozen years. The average daily range
at Honolulu is II degrees, and its usual
temperature is several degrees cooler
than the average of a number of other
cities in the same latitude-notably
Havana.
The northeast trade winds are the
saving feature OF the Hawaiian
Islands. imparting 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 30l-the
mean 25S. January has a normal av-
erage of IA DAYS of trades, which. as
the sun moves north. increase until the
normal average reaches 29lh DAYS in
July and August, and then begins a
corresponding diminution through the
autumn months 10 the end of the year.
Oahu and Kauai. of the group. are
mostly Influenced by these trade winds.
which NAV there be said to blow for
nine months of the year. Maui. which
is larger. has a few places to leeward.
like the town of Lahaina. for instance,
where there is n regular land and sea
breeze. and Hawaii has a land and sea
breeze all the wear 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
reyail for weeks. The south wind.
which the natives aDtlv call the sick
wind !" brings rain and often ailment
tn suscentible foreigners. but there are
never hurricanes and only rarely
thundsr-storms This is the time too
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