Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-14
PREDICTION FULFILLED
WEATHER MAN LYONS
TOLD OF HEAVY RAIN
Judged by Condition of Continued Low
Barometer - ArteSian Well
Level Rising December
Weather.

Temperature mean for December
~; normal. 7l.5; average daily maxi
mum. IA: average daily minimum,
GIL mean daily range 1913; greatest
daily range, 10 degrees; least daily
range. 2 degrees: highest temperature
SO: lowest. 80.
Barometer average. 20 923; normal
29.97O corrected FOR gravity by -.OG) ;
highest. 3O.l7; lowest, 29.73l. Lows
passed this point on the 10th and 23d:
highs on the ith. Goth and 3lst. In
the October report the following re-
mark was made. 1t will be interesting
TO note whether seven successive
months of low barometer will he fol-
lowed by unusually heavy rains" The
report below will show whether this
was well founded.
Relative humidity. 1862; normal. 1j:
mean dew point, cal; normal, 60; abb
solute moisture. G.G3 grains to tho
cubic foot; normal. csc. The dew
point was unusually low during the
last three days Of the month.
Rainfall. 9.9S inches: normal. 392:
rain record days. II; normal. lG.
greatest rainfall in one day, 5.76 inches
fell on the cath: total at Luakaha,
25.5I: at Kaplolani Park 033. Total
rainfall since January t. 1896; normal,
81 100.
The artesian well level rose during
the month from 1856 feet above mean
sea level to 34.05. January |, 1901
II stood at 34.OO. It would seem that
the lowering of the wells has come
TO standstill. owing to the failure
OF the high-level wells, and probably
greater economy on the part Of those
at low-level. The average daily near
sea-level for December was 1926 on tn,
scale. 1900 representing an assumed
annual mean, and $50 the actual an
nual mean for nine years previous tC
1901. The mean for 1901 has beer
1917.
Trade wind days, 7: normal. IA: o
NNE.; average force Of wind (durins
daylighU, IL Beaufort scale. Cloudi
ness. tenths of sky, so.
Approximate percentages of distric
rainfall, Hllo. l75 per cent; Hamakua
| 40; Kohala, 1880. Saimca, 100: KOnQ
200 to 400; Kau. l75; Puma. $50: Maui
variable from 90 to zoe; Oahu, 24O
Kauai, 225.
There was general and very heav!
rainfall throughout the group on tn
| In.hag -, ~ ,,
10 inches in 81 hours in Hilo, and Il
LaupahOehoe and OOkala North Hilu
20 inches in - hours, is reported Of
good authority, though the official re
port has not come in. The newspa
pers reported 40 inches in a day a
Papaaloa, miles from Laupahoeroe
but there is no rain gauge at that poin
and LaupahOehOe reports 20 inches TO
two days, not one.
Mean temperatures: Pepeekeo, HI
10 District, 100 feet elevation. averag
maximum, 776; average minimum
CTS; Wamea, Hawaii, 273O elevation
1871 and GIG; Kohala 52l elevation
7S.6 and GU w. r. Castle. Kulaoka
hua, 60 feet elevation, highest, so
lowest, So; average for year 7i.4l. Ewi
plantation. 30 elevation, mean maxi
mum, Sl.2; mean minimum, 54..s
mean dew point. Ga.
The two storm periods 4 the mont
were about the 9Th and gath, boil
preceded by heavy swell and followed
by low dew point The north wine
evidently nrecipitated the terrih
downpour on North Hilo. There wa
lightning reported from Hawaii fo
the Sth, 9th, 18th, 2ith and 25th. Snow
fell on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa OF
the Sth and oath. Earthquake re
ported at HIlo 1880 D. M, I'd.
CURTIS J. LYONS,
Territorial Meteorologlst