RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 450 PM HST SAT MAR 07 2009 ...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT HILO HI... THE RAIN TOTAL BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 4 PM AT HILO WAS 6.95 INCHES... WHICH BREAKS THE DAILY RECORD OF 1.82 INCHES SET IN 1989. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY RAINFALL RECORD AMOUNT...AS RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL IN THE HILO AREA.Hilo bayfront soccer fields when it floods, from Richard Ha's Blog
Filed under: Announcements, Environment, Hilo | Tagged: Hilo Record Rain
In case you missed it, there is a Pahoa gauge listed on the first link.
Damon – I didn’t even think to click on the link that you had provided… Doh! That’s a great link. I wish they had an RSS feed for that specific site.
For a look at the rainfall for the past 24 hours (broken down in by stages) see:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/data/HFO/RRAHFO
For a look at the past three days at a few selected stations:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/data/HFO/RRMHFO
The latter shows that Hilo Airport received more than 15 inches over the past two days. Pretty soggy.
At our home in Orchidland we received 9.31 inches yesterday and a total of 13.41 inches over the past two days.
Damon – Dang!!! I wish there were official stations closer to Pahoa. It has been a wet few days. Thanks for the update in your neck of the RIVER.
Even more rain fell d;uring the night of Aug. 7-8, and is still continuing at ten a.m. My rain gauge maxed out at ;7.5″ for the 24 hours preceding nine o’clock
today, Aug. 8.
SO what was yesterday’s total and the total for last night. Please email me your reply:
olp@orlapubs.com Mahalo
Lived along the bayfront (over the ’singing bridge’) a couple of years ago when I was controller for Lex Brodie’s so rainy Hilo is a very familiar site… but that’s amazing re the record number of inches!