00:00So we're calling it episode 44 of Kilauea erupting on Thursday for about eight hours.
00:07It was sending a big plume of lava into the sky and there was a road closure tied to this
00:14partly because of some of the debris that comes down and how that could be a hazard.
00:18But what a photogenic scene there yet again, time and time again.
00:23That has since calmed a bit since Thursday night, but the weather has not been calm in
00:28parts of Hawaii.
00:29Here we are at Waikiki Beach and look at that rain, low clouds and an angry surf with a
00:36storm system.
00:37The third Kona low in several weeks here impacting Hawaii and we've seen some significant rainfall
00:44amounts.
00:44We're going to show you that.
00:45But here is a satellite estimate of where the rain is falling as if there was a satellite
00:49radar network across the entire ocean.
00:51This kind of fills in some of the gaps.
00:53You can see some of the heaviest rain has been pushing through the western and central islands
00:56and overall much of the remainder of the day into the evening and tonight here central and
01:02eastern parts of Hawaii.
01:03We're going to see an increasing trend with more rain for the big island eventually into
01:07tonight.
01:07Hawaii rainfall.
01:08We've seen tremendous amounts yet again, eight to 14 inches.
01:11Mount Waiali Ali is one of the wettest spots on earth, if not the wettest spot on earth.
01:16There are hundreds of inches in a typical year, another 14.92 inches.
01:20And this has been erasing the drought here.
01:23So look at this.
01:24March of last year to March 1st of this year, we've seen seven to 12 inches in various areas.
01:30We've matched those numbers or even exceeded them just in the past five or six weeks.
01:34Pretty amazing and we're going to be dealing with some more heavy rain pushing through central
01:38and eastern parts of the Hawaiian islands into the beginning of the weekend.
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