The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-15
HIGHEST GAEVEL RECORD
SEPTEMBER BEATS ANYTHING
ron NINE YEARS
Low barometer Bears
out Prof Lyons Hypothesis Account
ing for High Tide of the Summer

The unusually high tides which have
attracted so much attention Of late,
have led Prof Lyons TO look up the re-
cords of the tide gauges and Collate
them so as To know exactly the relative
heights of these tides The result has
been to show that the average daily
mean sea level for september was the
highest for over nine vars The exact
showing is thus given by Prof Lyons
i'm his meteorological report for Septem-
Der.
THE average daily mean sea-level for
September was 0.46 feet on the scale,
1000 representing the assumed annual
mean. The actual mean for nine years
previous to 1901 was 9.S2 the lowest
monthly mean during that period was
9.45 1916 as above being the highest"
When the high tides We're first noticed
/ Prof. Lyons Ventured the hypothesis
that they might De due to high barome-
ter i'm the southern hemisphere simulta-
neously with low barometers here. The
Australian papers show that the ba-
rometer there has ranged higher than
normal. while the records here show
/ September to have been the sixth month
/ of law barometer The barometer
record for September in Honolulu is
shown by Prof. Lyons as follows:
| Barometer average, 29.959; normal
/ 2gg7O corrected for gravity by .O6) 4;
/ highest, 3OO7. on the lst lowest 29S5
on the Goth; greatest "A hour change,
OF, goth p. m. to 2lst p. m. Lows on
1 the 21st and Both; highs" lst and 18th.
/ This is the sixth successive month of
/ barometer lower than normal
The remainder of the meteorological
summary for September is as follows;
Temperature mean for the month,
/ 7L2; normal 775; average daily maxi
mum, SAL; average daily minimum, III
average daily range, 10 degrees least
daily range, degrees; highest tenn
perature, SO; lowest &c.
Relative humidity 69.4 per cent; nor
NAL, 6S.4; mean dew-point $50; normal
66.3; mean absolute moisture 1l2 grains
to the cubic foot; normal, 7.06.
Rainfall 0.S5 inches normal 2.04;
rain-record days. II, normal, IS; great
est rainfall in one day 0.12 on the 14th;
total at Luakaha, III; at Kapiolani
! Park, 015 Total rainfall since January
! /, 24.S2; normal. 24.7S.
1.-THE aTtesian well-Water stands at
1872 feet above mean sea-level. This is
OBS foot higher than at the same date
in 1900
Trade wind days, "a q of NNE); nor
NAL, for September 26; average force
during daylight Beaufort scale, "a.
"Cloudiness, tenths of sky, 3.9; normal
! 40; No northeTly upper currents.
Approximate percentages of district
rainfall as compared with normal; Hilo
AZ per cent; Hamakua, 16; Kohala, 20;
Waimea, 3d. Kona, 100; Kau, 20; Puma
so. Maui: Waikiki, 2O Makawao, 100
oahu, 81; North Kauai. so; South Kau-
al, 90 per cent. The drought i'm North
Hawaii, also on the Maui isthmus is
still serious, and the forest fires are
not yet eXtinguished. Rains will prob
ably set in before the end of October.
Mean temperatures, Pepeekeo, Hilo
district. 100 feet elevation, average
maximum, S04; average minimum, 7O.2
Waimea, Hawaii 273O feet elevation, 49,.
and 653; Kohala, 52l feet elevation 1874
and IA; Kulaokahua w r.. Castles
GO feet levation highest So, lowest, 81
mean III. Eva Mill, 80 foot elevation
So average maximum and 10 average
minimum; probable mean, 7S.5
No heavy surf reported during the
month excepting moderately heavy or
the 18th and 18th.
mo lightning, no earthquakes re-
ported The last vestige Of snow on
Mauna Kea."