Puna Weather

Most of us have heard the saying, “If you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes.”  But nowhere we’ve lived has this been truer than in Puna on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Your plans for the day are determined by the weather.  Despite the apparent contradictory logic, we try to plan our long list of Hilo errands when it IS raining – that way we don’t have to do them when the weather is perfect to be outside.

 

Notice the WORDING in the following six-day projection.

• “Periods of sun with showers; mild”
• “Partly cloudy with spotty showers”
• “Variable cloudy with showers”
• “Variable clouds with showers; mild”
• “Clouds and sun with a shower or two”
• “Partly sunny with a shower or two”

In other words, there will always be some sun, some clouds and some rain.  Just imagine having a job as a weather forecaster – you can be wrong half the time, right half the time and still get paid!  Of course we love our charming Guy Hagi with Hawaii News Now – an avid surfer whose weather report ALWAYS include surf advisory, and who sometimes delivers da report in pidgin.  Just before hurricane Iselle hit, his classic pronouncement went viral, “dis one goin hit brah” was memorable simply because in 150 years the height of the volcanoes has saved us from any direct hit.

Ah….da rain just stopped!