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chisue

9 years ago

We talked to DS in Chicago yesterday. It was nearly 80F. Chicago has had one snow worth plowing in 2017 -- March 13-14.

It's been hotter than H on Maui this month, too -- 90F on our lanai by 1 p.m. many days.

Are you having weird weather, too?

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chisue
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9 years ago

Texas_Gem -- Hawaii temps are very 'local'. People planning to visit post on the Trip Advisor forums in tears, "Oh it's going to rain for our whole week on Maui." No, it's going to rain *somewhere* on Maui -- West Maui Mountains, Wailuku, Upcountry, Hana. Maui has many different micro-climates. It can be raining at one beach and dry at another only a few miles away. Same with swimming/surfing conditions.

Annual averages in South Maui are a ten degree swing from low-70's at night to mid-80's in the day. When we arrive in January, it can be 60 and breezy overnight.

West Maui is the same; a little cooler far NW at Kapalua. Hana (SE) is warm and wet; lots of rain there. At the crater (Haleakala), you need warm coats, hats and gloves when it's dark, then sun hats, sunscreen and lots of water once the sun comes up. Sunrise has become so popular there that you have to make a (free) reservation with the National Park Service.

The Hawaiian islands are all old volcanoes. The older islands, Kauai and Oahu, have the most eroded lava, hence the most vegetation. Peaks on Kauai have rain almost every day -- 400 inches a year. Most of leeward Maui is dry, with the bulk of the island taken up by Halekala.

Big Island of Hawaii is newest -- still expanding with new lava. It's still bare lava westvegetation on the windward sides. Mauna Kea often has snow in winter while SE Hilo is hot and humid.

Sorry for the 'lesson'. Come see for yourselves!

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Texas_Gem
9 years ago
How hot is it normally in Hawaii?

I've never been to a tropical island, I always pictured them being what I consider warm, in the 80s and 90s.
morz8 - Washington Coast
9 years ago
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If anyone is too warm, they could come here. We've been both cooler, and more wet than is normal even for us here on the NW coast. It's 45 right now at dusk and I just came in from pulling weeds. My nose is cold, my hands are cold. It wasn't raining but I did put on hip boots so I could get down on the ground without grinding mud into my pant legs. Hips boots rinse off with the garden hose ;0)
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9 years ago
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9 years ago
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9 years ago
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lily316
9 years ago
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9 years ago
We hit 76 Friday & Saturday!! Was 81 degrees in my bedroom. Slept with box fan blowing on us. Too rainy for open windows.
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9 years ago
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jim_1 (Zone 5B)
9 years ago
In west central Florida, it is forecast to be into the 80s every day for quite a while (average high is 76); with the lows in the low 60s (average low is 51). It is dry here, we had one day of rain that amounted to 0.4" in my gauge and nothing predicted for the rest of the month. Average rain is a bit more than 3".
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9 years ago
Fairly usual. One freeze. Some years were don't have any. It has been slightly above normal temps most of the winter. I like hot weather. I can't take the cold...especially when it is cold and wet.
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Friday it snowed here in Colorado, schools were closed, around 39F yesterday. It's lightly raining today, 36F. Weather report says highs between 42F & 27F all week. At night....between 23F and 16F.....Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.........
pkramer60
9 years ago
Like Chisue, I am in Chicago. We hit 83 on Friday by me, but at 4:30pm, we dropped to 40 in 20 minutes. Then the storms came and we have been cool and rainy since then.
Texas_Gem
9 years ago
Thanks Chisue. I hope one day to visit.
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9 years ago
Two night ago, Racine, WI got a hail storm. So much ice fell on the roadway, that the highway department called out the snowplows to shove the ice off the freeway. It was a traffic hazard.

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