It is that mid-troposphere hot spot.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=hfo&map.x=274&map.y=203
h/t to Joe D’Aleo
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Mountain top weather at Mauna Loa!
That is normal weather at that altitude!
It happens sometimes during the Winter. This is May.
Well within normal variations.
MONTH AVE HIGH AVE LOW REC HIGH REC LOW AVE PRECIP (in)
JAN 50 33 67 19 2.48
FEB 50 33 64 18 1.51
MAR 50 33 65 20 1.75
APR 52 35 67 24 1.33
MAY 54 37 68 27 1.00
JUN 57 39 71 28 0.51
JUL 56 39 70 26 1.16
AUG 56 39 68 28 1.50
SEP 56 38 67 29 1.36
OCT 55 38 66 27 1.16
NOV 53 36 65 25 1.78
DEC 51 34 67 22 2.01
???? Record low temperature for May on Friday night. – 27F
The record low of may is -11 C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea#Climate
27 F = -3 C
The average low of may is -2 C.
Nice try. That is at a different location at higher elevation. The record at this station is 27F.
It was 40º at the summit of Haleakala, Maui, today and raining like a cow with a flat rock. Snow on Mauna Loa is not uncommon. I actually wondered if we were going to see some flakes in between the rain drops, but visibility was under 100′ and seeing anything was a challenge.
Aloha kaua from Maui
With an elevation of over 13,000 ft the cold weather might be explained!
12,051 feet.
Daniel,
We are supposed to be getting catastrophic, runway global warming that requires immediate, drastic, extremely expensive action. Thus temps should not be at the lower end of “normal variations” at this late date.
We are supposed to be well into the “hockey stick” warming by now. The predictions from the 80’s and 90’s have not materialized. Why should we listen to them now?
You shouldn’t listen to the predictions from the 80’s and 90’s since there are more accurate ones today and become more accurate each year. Normal temperature variations are measured in tens of degrees. Long term climate change is measured in a degree or two. Thus temperatures at any given time can be at the lower end of “normal variations”.
Just admit it, snow and cold like that is remarkable in May.
The average high for all months of the year is in the 50’s. The average low for all months of the year is in the 30’s. The weather there is always remarkable.
In order to produce snow at that latitude and elevation in the middle of the ocean, there needs to be a blast of cold air which rarely makes it that far south in May. Temperatures in Hawaii tend to be very stable.
Have you ever been on Mauna Loa? It can snow any time of the year. Yes, it is dry so it doesn’t happen all the time, but it happens.
A Google search for snow Hawaii turns up a number of hits in December-April. I don’t see any later than April 6..
I haven’t done a google search, but I have been to Mauna Loa.
I’ve been to the Big Island in July and March. No snow either time.
On the Big Island but near the top of Mauna Loa? Anyway, it is almost always cold at the top but doesn’t always snow.
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/current/cams/
It’s snowing again.