The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-01-14

The following is the meteorological
summary for the month of December
prepared by Territorial Meteorological
X. c. Lydeoker;
The principal features OF the month
We're the light rainfall which, with but
very few exceptions, or the Islands Of
Maui and Kauai, was considerably be-
low the December normals of the diff
ferent stations throughout the group,
and the extremely light wind that pre-
vailed, the average force being barely
10. This is the lghtest of any month
on record at the Weather Bureau. AS
a sequence Of the foregoing conditions,
the average amount of cloudiness was
considerably below the normal.
For the sixth consecutive month the
mean pressure was above the normal,
condition which has existed eight
months out of the twelve. In this con-
nectiOn it is interesting to note that
the average pressure was about as
much above the yearly normal as the
rainfall was proportionately below. 1t
was remarked in the November Sum
mary that the high pressure of the pre-
/ vious months, was likely to be followed
| by a winter of moderate rainfall. The
small precipitation of the past month
tends to confirm this opinion.
Volcanic activity abatad somewhat,
that of Mauna LOa summit crater,
! MokuaweoweO, ceasing on the night Of
| the Sth. The DISAPPEARANCE of activity
in this crater was as sudden as it's be-
ginning, earlier in the evening the re-
Election was the same as had been COM
mon during the eruption, but at about
II p. m. this suddenly ceased, to be
seen no more. Activity of the crater of
Halemaumau, in Kilauea, was reported
at the end of the month to be about the
same as at the beginning, a lava lake
about 200 feet in diameter having form
ed in the pit.
A small tidal wave did minor damage
at Hookena, Hawaii, during the early
morning of the 18th; and the landing at
Keawakapu, Maui, was destroyed by
high seas at the same time.
Temperature mean for the month
1872; normal 71.5; average daily maxi
mum, 1874; average daily minimum
go; mean daily range, ia; greatest
daily range, II degrees 12th and 24th)
least daily range, 5 degrees (4th); high
est temperature, so degrees (severaD
lowest temperature, 62 degrees (24th).
Temperature mean for the year, 1874
? normal year, 74.0,
) Barometer average, 29.99S; normal
r 29.97O highest, 9O.13 Q5th); lowest, 29,S
, (9th); greatest 24-hour change, that i
/ from any given hour of one day to tn
same hour on the next, .OS low pres
!, sure, Sth to 10th inclusive, high pres
- sure, 4th to 18th, II and 25th to 31st
d Barometer average for the year, 29.99g
normal 29.9S8. Pressure is correcte
for temperature, and reduced to Sc
= level, and the gravity correction az
:, Piled
Relative humidity average, 1858; MOI
NAL 1873; mean dew point, 63.5; noI
NAL, 63.0 mean absolute moisture, g.
E. grains per cubic foot; normal, 6.32.
Rainfall, LA inches; normal, 89.
lie rain record days, Il; normal, 81 grea
y est rainfall in one day, 0.33 inches, frol
Re 9 a. m. Both to a. m, 31st; total at IL
l. akaha S.81 inches, normal, 1924; at Kf
piolani Park, O6S inshes, normal g..
inches. Rainfall for the year. 32.68 il
l. ches; normal, $685.
:, AS the case in November, due prime
"a pally to the light rainfall, the artesia
we'll water level rose but slightly du
ing the month, from 1894 to 3S.4O fe
above mean sea level, This is the low
:, est December level on record during Il
five years these observations have be-