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See that streetlamp in the background? There's an entire mountain range behind it, trust me.

From NOAA:

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
300 PM HST MON MAR 27 2006

...BEGINNING OF SIXTH WEEK OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IN HAWAII...

SINCE MID FEBRUARY THE UPPER ATMOSPHERIC PATTERN ACROSS THE PACIFIC
HAS BEEN RELATIVELY LOCKED IN PLACE WITH A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL
STORM SYSTEMS FORMING JUST TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF HAWAII. THIS
HAS PUT HAWAII IN THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AREA IN RELATIONSHIP TO
THESE STORMS...RESULTING IN ROUND AFTER ROUND OF RAINS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE.

HARDEST HIT HAS BEEN KAUAI AND TO A LESSER EXTENT OAHU AND SOUTHEAST
PORTIONS OF THE BIG ISLAND. SEVERAL LONG TERM MONTHLY RECORDS ON
KAUAI HAVE ALREADY BEEN BROKEN...WITH EVEN AN ALL TIME RECORD FOR
LIHUE. RECORDS AT LIHUE ONLY GO BACK TO 1950. EVEN ON PORTIONS OF
WINDWARD OAHU...A COUPLE OF MONTHLY RAINFALL RECORDS HAVE ALREADY
BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR LOCATIONS WITH RECORDS THAT GO BACK TO THE
EARLY 20TH CENTURY.

During this six week period Kauai had a large dam break which killed seven people and shocked the hell out of us, mostly because we weren't even aware there were some 60 dams on that island, many of them vulnerable.

NOAA goes on to say that this weather pattern is most like one that happened in March of 1951.

Posted by Linkmeister at March 28, 2006 04:34 PM | TrackBack