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Heavy rains hit Hawaii Island on Saturday

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by David Corrigan Hawaii Island had a wet Saturday. Reports of heavy rain prompted a short flood advisory for leeward areas of the Big Island until noon. By the afternoon, it was East Hawaii getting all the rain. Things are looking up for Easter Sunday, however.  From the website of the National Weather Service Forecast […]

by David Corrigan

Hawaii Island had a wet Saturday. Reports of heavy rain prompted a short flood advisory for leeward areas of the Big Island until noon.

By the afternoon, it was East Hawaii getting all the rain.

Things are looking up for Easter Sunday, however.  From the website of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Honolulu:

National Weather ServiceNWS Honolulu

“The unsettled weather will begin clearing out late in the afternoon and early this evening over Kauai and Oahu, then Maui county and the Big Island on Sunday. Cooler and drier northerly flow will follow the frontal passage, and persist through the middle of next week.”

Meteorologists went into greater detail on Facebook. On Saturday morning, the US National Weather Service Honolulu & Central Pacific Hurricane Center posted radar imagery (above) showing a band of heavy showers over the Alenuiha’ha channel between Hawaii Island and Maui, and a smaller patch over the area of North Kona and Kailua Village. They also explained:

National Weather ServiceNWS Honolulu

“A weak cold front is pushing in from the northwest today. It’s nearly reached Kauai as of 1030am HST and will quickly travel down the island chain through tonight. Expecting only a minor uptick in clouds and isolated showers as it moves through. The bigger story is the pre-frontal convergence out ahead of it which is providing the cloudy skies from Molokai to the Big Island. The Big Island in particular has flared up with some heavy downpours late this morning as the sea breezes has set in. We are expecting the showery weather to continue mainly for Maui and Big Island becoming locally heavy at times. For those of you looking ahead to tomorrow, conditions should be a bit drier and cooler as the airmass behind the front builds over the islands.”

Kona residents seemed to welcome the rain on the dry side of the island today, judging by posts found on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/firebomb56/status/318069766587817986