The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-16
WEATHER SUMMARY FOR
DECEMBER, 1902.

| Temperature mean for the month
7os; normal, us; average daily maxi
mum, 1871; average daily minimum
$50; mean daily range, 81; greatest
! daily range, Is degrees; least daily
range, 6 degrees; highest temperature,
20; lowest, 81.
Barometer average, 29.93S; normal,
29970; highest, 30.11, on 29th; lowest
1915, 10th and 21st; greatest 247hour
change, O.1O; Flows" passed this point,
End, 10th, 21st; highs" 5th, 14th, 29th.
Relative humidity, average, III;
normal, X; mean dew-point, 63.1; nor
NAL, 62.9; absolute moisture, mean,
6.39 grains to cubic foot; normal, 6.92.
There was an unusual period of low
dew-point during the last ten days of
the month.
Rainfall. 1920 inches; normal, 1872;
rain-record days, IS; normal, 16; great
est rainfall in one day, 800, 22nd. Total
at Luakaha, $3.50; normal, 1924; at Ka-
piolani Park, 7.S1; normal, 3.55.
The artesian well level rose during
the month from 1890 to 34.57 feet above
mean sea-level. Dec. 81, 1901, it stood
at 3405. The average daily mean sea-
level for the month was 9.S7, the assum-
ed annual mean being 1000 feet above
datum. For December. 1901, it was
1926 For the year 1902, 9S5. For the
previous year, 1917.
Trade-wind days, II, a N.N.E.); nor
NAL, 16; average force of wind dur
ing daylight, Beaufort scale, 2.3; aver
age cloudiness, tenths of sky, So; nor
NAL, A
Approximate percentage of district
rainfall as compared with the normal:
$50; Hamakua, 400; Kohala, $50; Wal
mea, $50; Kona, 800 to 400; Kau, lao to
800; Puma, 175; Maui, $50 to 800; Oahu,
220; except Kahuku, 400; Kauai, 800 per
cent.
The month was a rainy one and the
whole years rainfall when published
will show surprising records. The
heaviest rainfall for the month was,
34S4, Puuohua; the heaviest 24-hour,
1885, at Hanalei, Kauai, on the 18th;
Nahiku, $3.50 ft.), $50. on the Sth.
Mean temperature, Pepeekeo, Hilo, 100
feet elevation, mean maximum, $50;
IIledA Oc-AS w dlilSd, hawaii,
2730 elevation, 74.3 and $50; Kohala, 52f
elevation, 75.S and 65.1; Waiakoa, Kula,
Maui, 2700 elevation, 1873 and 566; Pun
meme Mill, Maui, 200 CD elevation, no
and 65.1, (mean temperature, $3.50; Eva
Plantation, so elevation, 10 and So; U.
S. Experimental Station, $50 elevation,
1858 and 65.9; w. r. Castles, highest,
70; lowest, 81; mean, 700; L. S. Mag
netic Station, mean temperature, I'll.
Eva Mill, mean dew-point, 81; mean
relative humidity, IL; Kohala, Bond,
dew-point, 64.5; relative humidity, 50;
Puunene, 66.4 and So; Puunene, Baron,
1891; U. 5. Magnetic Station, dew-point,
So: relative humidity, AZ.
The month was characterized by four
storms which We're no doubt general.
One that came in on the 1st from the
previous month; then on the 18th, 22nd,
and finally the heavy blow which char
acterized the last week of the year, and
which was attended by an unusual
spell of low dew-point, showing winds
from the far north.
Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa were
heavily covered with snow at the close
of the month; the storm of the 11-13th
being especially marked.
Heavy surf, 1st, 18th, 2Sth, as centers
of surf periods.
CURTIS J. LYONS.
Territorial Meteorologist.