The first person to say “beautiful” or “hot” or such should please add their mailing address, so I can ship them a 2x4 to whack themselves upside the head.
I am working on a story idea in which a scene takes place in Hawaii and want to get the weather right. I go to this weather site and can find the high/low temp, wind and rainfall for any given day.
On the day the link points to (December 27, 1996), Honolulu got 0.3 inches of rain. This is a particularly rainy day for Honolulu. Would this fall in a brief heavy downpour, or would it drizzle all afternoon? I suspect there wouldn’t be thunder, but I would appreciate confirmation of this.
I would say it was mildly overcast, with sprinkles here and there. December is not a particularly sunny month, nor is it a really rainy month. But it is COLD :eek: for us. By “cold” I mean 68F is pretty chilly at night. For us.
Exactly where and at what time of year and day does the moment in question occur? Weather varies greatly there-- the weather in Kona is VERY different from Hilo, eg. Are we talking Honolulu?
Let’s see… we have K’auai… with the wettest spot on earth… like 465 inches of rain a year? With total whiteout because of the cloud cover… sometimes the ocean swells and part of the island is inaccesable…
O’ahu… hmm… I was on the Northshore and Honolulu… occasional sprinkles… starry nights, warm breezes…
The Big Island (my favorite)… you go from lush rainforest Hilo side to almost desert like Kona side… plus, LIQUID MAGMA OOZING FORTH (I know magma is not weather, but, its just so damn cool).
Thats nothing. Some islands there get feet of rain. My brother got something like that a few times.
I thought he said something like three feet in 48 hours but that might be an exaggeration.
Well, it is basically hot, 80s, however an interesting thing is that my brother said is
that it never got over 87 on his island. That would depend on what island you are talking about though. When you ask about
hawaii, are you asking about the island or the state keeper?
Wow. I didn’t realize the islands varied that much from one to the other. I knew there was some changes with elevation.
The basic idea of the scene is a group are sailing across the Pacific and stop in Honolulu for a brief stay.
It probably won’t amount to much. I am not much of a writer, and tend to spend too much time on things like getting the dimensions of the boat right and how much rain falls in Honolulu, and ignoring minor details like character development and interesting plots.
