What’s tomorrow’s weather in Hawaii?

The weather in my home state of Missouri can be miserable any time of year; sometimes most of the time. The weather is often called a ’state of misery.’ Local residents of the Show Me State often say, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait 20-minutes. It’ll change.” It does. Usually for the worse.

Weather forecasters in the Midwest live in a meteorologists paradise because all four seasons can happen on the same weekend. Storms, rain, snow, ice, cold, hot, and whatever isn’t pleasurable in between is cause enough for looking elsewhere for good weather habits.

Hawaii has good weather habits. Look at any long range forecast for weather in Hawaii. The projected daytime high temperatures rarely change more than a couple of degrees in any given week. The same is true for the overnight low temperatures. There is very little day-to-day change. When weather gets chilly, a relative term, obviously, it’s news. When the weather gets hot, say, about 90-degrees, it’s news.

Still, television meteorologists get the weather forecasts wrong in Hawaii about as much as they do in the Midwest. Weather is like that. Hawaii’s large mountains, ocean currents, and seasons combine to create weather pattern changes which affect the islands. Unknown to local meteorologists who try to determine an accurate forecast days in advance using scientific methods is the fact that some local residents have an effect on local weather.

If I wash my car, it will rain within 24 hours, yet KGMB-TV’s Guy Hagi never calls to ask when I plan to wash my car again. It’s a known scientific fact that rain-laden clouds from the Koolaus have been known to track my car for miles, waiting to dump a little drizzle on my newly washed vehicle just two blocks from home and covered parking.

It happens. It’s science.