Updated Monday at 5:30 PM......
The highest two points on the island of Hawaii which is known as the Big Island are 13,796 feet on Mauna Kea and 13,680 feet on Mauna Loa. With elevations like this, you can have cold and snow up high while temperatures are in the 80's closer to sea level.
The lowest temperature in Louisville this winter has been 17 degrees.
Over the weekend the temperature on the weather station at the Mauna Kea Observatory dropped to 16 degrees.
This temperature occurred after 6 inches of snow fell on the mountain top. So not only has Hawaii seen a colder temperature than Louisville this winter, they also have had more snow than Louisville.
This web cam is from a snow covered Mauna Loa. You can see Mauna Kea in the distance with the snow on the higher elevations.
Mauna Loa is the world's largest volcano. The mountain is over 13,000 feet tall and extends down into the ocean floor. The summit is actually about 56,000 feet above its base. Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since 1843. The most recent eruption was in 1984.
Back to Louisville..... We are getting to the time of late winter where it can be hard to have temperatures dip into the teens unless there is several inches of snow on the ground. If we don't get any snowstorms, we probably have seen our lowest temperature of the winter. There is a cold snap coming in this weekend. Right now the lowest temperature forecast is 28. There may be one more cold spell later next week before the southeast ridge begins to build. Once this happens after March 3, our chances of seeing 70 degrees begins to increase.
This place sucks. Kentucky weather is the worse in the nation we should rename the signs. "Unbridled Spirit/Suckass Weather".
We live in $#$#hole, USA. And I still have a 1,000,000.00 bounty for the head of Mother Nature. Doubled if you bring her in alive so I can torture.
RM
Posted by: RM | February 20, 2012 at 06:59 PM