Weather News and Events
Honolulu County, Hawaii

May 20, 1846
Milwaukee Daily Courier, Milwaukee Wisconsin
From the Sandwich Islands, Oregon and California-
We have intelligence from Honolulu to February 14th:
    -Letters from Hawaii, of December, state, that in consequence of an unprecedented drought, that whole district of country had been ravaged by fires, which consumed in great numbers the habitations of the natives. A famine had also prevailed there for six or eight weeks, the people living on fern and roots, and there was no prospect of immediate relief. [Submitted by S. Williams]

November 10, 1881
The Democrat, Olean New York
How it Rains In Hawaii
    George E. Wilhoit, now residing in Honolulu, writes to his father in this city that it rained every day in the islands during July. He says it seldom rains over two or three hours at a time in the summer months. The rain usually comes down suddenly and in a body, like the dash of a bucket of water and stops as suddenly as it comes. When the rain is over the sun immediately appears, and in half an hour every sign of rain has disappeared, and a person would not, judging from the appearance of the earth, suppose that it had rained for six months. He says "It rains almost constantly in the mountains, a few miles off, and it is no wonder that everything grows so fast and that vegetation always looks so green."-Stockton (Cal.) Independent. [Submitted by S. Williams]

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