Links


GEOGRAPHY:
  1. Rainfall map  (3 hrs smallest increment; Poamoho 2 doesn't work)
  2. More rainfall gauges (3 hrs smallest increment; includes Poamoho summit and experimental farm)
  3. Unlisted Poamoho weather station 
  4. Hourly rain gauges 
  5. UTC time (comes in handy for reading radar and satellite data)
  6. Hourly rainfall estimates from radar (left click to zoom in)
  7. Current rain intensity from radar
  8. Current rain intensity from radar  (Left click to zoom; From Wikipedia.com: 20=very light...0.02in/hr; 35=moderate...0.22in/hr; 45=moderate to heavy...0.92in/hr)
  9. Cloud cover from satellite 
  10. Current Water Vapor activity in Central Pacific region
  11. Stream Flow conditions
  12. NOAA Weather Forecasts (regional synopsis is good, local forecasts are sometimes wrong)
  13. Weather Underground forecasts (forecasts are more accurate but stations are restricted mostly to Honolulu area)
  14. Vegetation guide by rainfall zone
  15. Plants and Trees of Hawaii 
  16. Fruit-bearing vegetation in Hawaii 
  17. Custom printed Topographic maps  (can be merges of overlapping USGS maps!)
  18. Road closure schedule for the railway construction. 
  19. Scheduled freeway lane closures 
TRAIL GUIDES FOR EXPERIENCED HIKERS, AND INSPIRING HIKING STORIES:
  • Active Blogs in 2015:
  1. http://www.explorationhawaii.com/hikes/
  2. http://hiescapade.blogspot.com
  3. http://www.unrealhawaii.com 
  4. http://kenjisaito.com/
  • Archived Blogs:
  1. http://notsogreathikingblog.blogspot.com
  2. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~turner/ohe/ohe.html (this was perhaps the first ever Hawaii hiking blog! Only the links up to April 2000 work, because sadly, geocities no longer exists) and http://www.hikehawaii.blogspot.com
     (some of the missing geocities entries were reposted here)
  3. http://extremehikinghawaii.blogspot.com 
  4. http://hawaiianforest.com/wp/
  5. http://kaleolancaster.blogspot.com/
  6. http://waianaecrider.com
  7. http://www.alohafrom808.com/category/hiking/ 
  8. http://punynari.wordpress.com
  9. http://dgcpinoy.blogspot.com/  
 CLUBS:
  1. Hawaii Trail and Mountain Club

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