The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-15
METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY
FOR MONTH OF JUNE, 1902


1858; normal, 100; average daily max
imum, S3.2; average daily minimum,
s9.4; mean daily range, 1873; greatest
daily range, 10 degrees; least daily
range. 7 degrees; highest temperature,
| So: lowest temperature, 81.
barometer average, 29.950; normal,
| 80 oil; highest, 30.07; lowest, 1888:
greatest 24-hour change, -0S, |. e., from
any given hour on one day to the same
hour on the next. LOWS passed this
| point on the 4th and on the 18th to the
18th; highs on the 1st, 18th and 29th.
| Relative humidity. III; normal, IL;
mean dew point, 67.9; normal, 65; mean
| absolute moisture, 7.43 grains to the
| cubic foot; normal. 6.s3; dew on grass,
IA days.
| Rainfall. 1.19 inches: normal, 152;
rain record days, 10; normal, 10; great
est rainfall in one day. OBS on the 18th;
total at Luakaha, 4.47; normal, SOS; at
Kapiolani Park. LOS; normal, OBS.
The artesian well level fell during
the month from 1885 to $3.50 feet above
mean sea level. June 80, 1901. it stood
| at 1886. The average daily mean sea
level for the month was $40 feet, 1000
representing the assumed annual mean.
| Trade wind days, IA q of N. NE);
normal for June, &c; average force of
wind during daylight, Beaufort scale,
lis; cloudiness, tenths of sky, S.S; nor
NAL, 40.
Approximate percentages of district
rainfall as compared with normal:
South Hilo. so per cent; North Hilo,
$780, Hamakua. 200; Kohaia, 200; Wal
Imea, lis; Kona, 1870; Kau, 300; Puma,
Olaa region, 80; Kapoho region. 12O;
Maui. central, 800; east coast, $50;
lOahu, south, so: Oahu. north. $50; Ka-
uai. south, 100; Kauai. north, $50.
Mean temperatures: Pepeekeo. Hi1o
district, 100 feet elevation, mean maxi
mum, sos; mean minimum, FOG; Wal
mea. Hawaii, 2730 elevation, 1910 and
643; KohaIa, sci elevation, S1.7 and
SOL: Nahiku, Maui. 1900 elevation, 79.1
and 65.5; Waiakoa, Kula, Maui, 200 ell
ovation. so.4 and SIS; Eva mill, so ele-
Y alton, $40 and 69.5; Magnetic Observa-
tory, SO elevation, S95 and 6S.S; Wal
kiki Beach, S32 and ia.
4 Mean humidities: Magnetic Observa-
tory. dew point. SIS; relative humid
| ity, 70; Eva Mill, 67.9 and rs; Kohala,
DR.. Bond, 6S.6 and 81.
| Heavy surf Bird to the 5th, Honolu-
| lu; 18th and 18th, Hilo coast, Hawaii.
Earthquakes: Hamakua on the 3rd at
10 D. M; Hilo on the 18th at $40 a. m.
and on the 14th at 8 a. M; Hamakua
and Waimea on the 18th at AIS D. M;
kau has not reported.
| The "afterglow" and morning glow
was very marked throughout the
month, being most brilliant about %
minutes after sunset and before sun
RISE which would give an elevation of
the dust stratum of from IL to 10 miles
assuming that the most marked color
ing would take place at the apparent
sunset of that time and elevation. The
coloring shaded off from rich yellow to
grey green, the day time corona being
whitish grey. There was a recurrence
of activity in the central pit crater,
Halemaumau, in KiIauea, the breaking
Upward from below being greatest from
the Bird to the 9Th. What molten lava
there was in the pit was still, however,
several hundred feet below the main
crater floor and obscured from view by
smoke. Many cracks in the main floor,
however, revealed heat to the point of
redness just below said floor.
There is still a small patch of snow
visible on Mauna Kea.
The marked features of the month |
were, first, the continued low barome- |
ter; second, the unusual lack of trade |
winds; third, the high humidity, alto |
gether making the weather oppressive, |
although, owing TO radiation at night, !
the average temperature was not ex-
cessive. CURTIS J. LYONS,
Territorial Meteorologist.