LIHUE — Monday, all of the main Hawaiian Islands were under a flash flood watch except for Kauai. By Tuesday afternoon the sun was shining on The Garden Isle while rain visited the rest of the state. “Kauai was kind
LIHUE — Monday, all of the main Hawaiian Islands were under a flash flood watch except for Kauai.
By Tuesday afternoon the sun was shining on The Garden Isle while rain visited the rest of the state.
“Kauai was kind of the one that hit the first round of showers and thunderstorms that came in ahead of the front,” said Matt Foster, forecaster with the National Weather Service.
Kevin Kodama, NOAA hydrologist, said forecasters are looking at an uptick in rainfall once spring arrives.
Windward sides of the islands are predicted to be the primary recipients of the predicted rain.
Monday’s showers were scattered all over the island, with every one of NWS’s rain gauges reporting at least some moisture.
By 3 p.m., Lihue Airport recorded the most rain on the island, next to Mount Waialeale’s 1.39 inches in three hours. The airport gauge recorded 1.25 inches from noon to 3 p.m. North Wailua Ditch reported 1.23 inches in the same period, and gauges in Omao and Anahola both reported 1.1 inches in those three hours.
Gauges in Kapahi on Kauai’s eastside reported 0.9 inches. The North Shore recorded the least amount of rainfall on Monday, 0.09 inches at Hanalei for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m.
