The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-18
Downpour OF Yesterday Accom-
panIedBy Fall Of Barometer
Way Below Normal
STORMS ARE UNUSUAL
AND DATA INTERESTING
Precipitation Thus Far This
( Month Surpassed Only Twice
Before For January

While i was pouring yesterday morn
ing a Honelulan met IIilo visitor In
Fort street and asked him what he
Thought Of the weather. ttYou are
having heavy dews,' replied the man
from the second city.
The rain came down in torrents again
yesterday, starting before breakfast
and continuing of and on all day and
| during the evening.
During the night .55 inches fell and
| from eight o'clock yesterday morning
until four o clock yesterday afternoon
the precipitation registered l.O7 inches.
The prevailing direction of the wind
was southwest, and for the twenty four
hour ended at four clock yesterday
afternoon the wind averaged In veloei-
ty about twenty-seyen miles an hour.
At ten clock in the morning il was
blowing at the rate Of forty-nine miles
an hour. w IL ,
Baremeterical readings at four o'eloek
yesterday afternoon showed 2D.66,
which is way below normal; indeed the
glass has fallen lower than this only
twice since the weather bureau started
taking observations in 1905. January IS,
1906, the barometer registered 1853,
and ON December 30 Of the same year
the reading was 29.5l.
Rains And Atmosphere @sa.f.
= In January, 1906, the rainfall was,
curiously enough, only 2.2l inches, the
precipitation for January Is, 10 and
20 being only SO inches. In the storm
of December 80 and 81, 1906, the rain
fall amounted to 1877 inches. The total
rainfall for December, 1906, was II. OF,
and for the entire year, 25.7Z
Warmer weather came with the
change Of the wind to southerly quar-
ter. Last Friday the miximum TEN.
perature was seventy-three and the
minimum reading Of the thermometer
sixty three degrees. On Saturday the
maximum was seventy-fve and the min,
mum sixty-two degrees, while on Sun
day the maximum was seventy six and
the minimpIn SIXTY six degrees, "a Yes
terday was considerably warmer than
its three predecessors fJ4 g Y
Up to four o'clock yesterday after
noon the rainfall for the month had
been l0,l5 inches. The rainfall for No
vember was 1908 inches and for De-
cember 9.0l inches, making a total Of
1884 inches for the last two months
.of 1915 and the first seventeen DAYS
Of January. Last years rainfall
amounted to 29.47 inches and the nor.
NAL yearly rainfall in Honolulu is 81. O3
inches. The rainfall for the past two
months and seventeen days surpasses
the total precipitation for all of last
year by 81 inch.
Only Twice Surpassed
During the last eleven years the
rainfall of January to date has only
twice been surpassed by the rainfall
for any entire month-in January,
1907, when the record for the month
was l2.A INCHES, and in November of
last year, when, the, precipitation reg
istered 1898 inches. If it keeps on,
raining II Is exceedingly probable that
new monthly record win be estab.
lished. ,s.. 3s.
As q rule when the weather is de-
scribed as f'unusualo the description
is usually regarded as fanciful. In the
present instance, however, there is no
doubt that the weather is not only
unusual but remarkably SO.
That the Hilo man, aforemen toned,
did not think that he was. saying any
thing out of the way when he made
his crack about the heavy dew, Is
shown by glance AT the Yilo weather
statistics. !. The average Hilo rainfall
for the past twenty eight, years has
4 nc +.