{"id":504,"date":"2026-06-10T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:08:51","slug":"a-wet-start-to-the-dry-season-in-east-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"A wet start to the dry season in East Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>June 1 marked the official start of the dry season for most of Hawaii, but that might not be apparent after the rainfall East Hawaii has received so far this month.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=502\">Zverev tears down the wall to enter Grand Slam winners\u2019 circle at French Open<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>June 1 marked the official start of the dry season for most of Hawaii, but that might not be apparent after the rainfall East Hawaii has received so far this month.<\/p>\n<p>Hilo International Airport as of 8 a.m. Tuesday had recorded 4.13 inches of rain for the month.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That would translate to 13.77 inches for the month, almost twice the normal June precipitation, if the rainfall rate continues for the remainder of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The airport\u2019s total, however, pales in comparison to the rain that found its way to most of the windward gauges on the Big Island.<\/p>\n<p>North of Hilo, Laupahoehoe received 12.24 inches and Hakalau had 12.67 inches so far this month. Glenwood, south of Hilo in the upper Puna rainforest, reported 10.94 inches, while Pahala, in the heart of Ka\u2018u coffee country, tallied 8.4 inches since June 1.<\/p>\n<p>All of those totals are well above the norm \u2014 especially Hakalau, with a total almost five times that of an entire average June, and Pahala, which already has received more than four times its usual June rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a switch like a light switch. It doesn\u2019t just become dry\u201d at the start of the dry season, said hydrologist Tina Stall of the National Weather Service\u2019s Honolulu forecast office.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, drought conditions that have gripped much of the Big Island the past five years, spurred by El Nino \u2014 warmer than normal equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean \u2014 are gone, although there are locations on the Big Island still considered abnormally dry.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of Kona low storms brought deluges that caused flooding and damage in March, but the spate of recent rainfall in East Hawaii is unrelated, according to Stall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had pretty typical trade wind weather for the past several weeks. There are just certain embedded areas of higher moisture that come through there,\u201d she said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t attribute it to climate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Stall, Hawaii remains in neutral conditions, neither El Nino or its opposite, La Nina, \u201cbut we\u2019re trending toward El Nino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=500\">Emergency roadwork on DKI Highway begins today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stall said typical El Nino years in Hawaii bring \u201cabove normal precipitation\u201d during the dry season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s partly due to the tendency for more tropical cyclones in the Central Pacific during an El Nino year,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane season started June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. Forecasters have predicted a busy season in the Central Pacific with five to 13 tropical cyclones.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association\u2019s Climate Prediction Center last month forecast that an El Nino cycle had an 82% chance of occurring between now and July and a 96% chance of continuing through December to February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith an El Nino, the dry conditions really don\u2019t set in until the winter, so if we end up getting above normal precipitation in the dry season, we could delay the effects of drought a little more. But this winter, it\u2019s going to likely dry out,\u201d Stall said.<\/p>\n<p>El Nino doesn\u2019t guarantee the development of tropical cyclones \u2014 which include hurricanes, tropical storms and tropical depressions \u2014 but does increase the odds they\u2019ll occur. And the forecast of five to 13 cyclones in the waters around Hawaii isn\u2019t a prediction of landfall by any of the potential storms, although that could happen.<\/p>\n<p>Most tropical cyclones enter the Central Pacific basin \u2014 which stretches from 140 degrees longitude north in the east and the International Date Line in the west \u2014 from the Eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>No tropical cyclones have either entered or formed in the Central Pacific so far this year, but at least three have developed in the Eastern Pacific so far this month. Tropical storms Amanda and Boris have dissipated and Tropical Storm Cristina was bringing heavy rain along the Central American coast and is expected to drift westward but weaken without entering the Central Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>West Hawaii, and the Kona coffee belt in particular, experiences its wet season in the summer, unlike most of Hawaii. So far, leeward Big Island rain gauges haven\u2019t shared in the June rainfall bounty.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport in Keahole had received just a trace of rain this month as of 8 a.m. Tuesday. And the coffee belt gauges in Waiaha, Kealakekua and Honaunau reported 0.68 inches, 0.28 inches and 0.13 inches, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Kona coffee growers will receive their expected summer rainfall, Stall replied, \u201cIt\u2019s too early to tell at this point, but I don\u2019t have reason to think otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=498\">Fifth-inning grand slam lifts Mariners over Orioles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email John Burnett at john.burnett@hawaiitribune-herald.com.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wet start to the dry season in East Hawaii &#8211; Hawaii News | Hawaii Tribune-Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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