With La Nina, there is a slight tendency to have wetter-than-normal conditions.

The air is so unstable, it can trigger these things. The conditions are just very favorable for these types of situations.

There are additional heavy showers moving into the area, and so it’s pretty much a wet pattern that we’re in a lot of moisture and unstable conditions so we expect these to continue at least...

That’s quite a bit of water. Now, granted, not all if it will run specifically into a stream, but that gives you some idea of the magnitude of this.

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

What’s unusual is you’re talking six weeks where the pattern was essentially fixed. Blocking patterns happen pretty much every year in the Pacific but six weeks is a long time.

Actually, it was not that wet until the last week or so.

We might see some sun Sunday … It will be partly cloudy, some staggered showers.

It’s still the expectation that we should see a lot of improvement on Saturday. I don’t know about sunny. How often is it sunny in Hilo?

Right now, there is quite a bit of uncertainty with the situation. We’re looking for a new storm system moving in (tomorrow), and we’re looking for rains, possibly to persist into the weekend. This one...