Grounded
There is a high risk for fog, ice and flurries throughout the forecast period. Deep convection and periods of heavy snow are possible particularly through tomorrow afternoon.
- from the latest report from the Mauna Kea weather centre.
I should be halfway up a mountain by now. The plan was to spend my first night on the Big Island halfway up Mauna Kea in order to acclimatize. I didn’t make it that far – the road was closed due to snowfall, and while I might get halfway up today I reckon the odds of getting any data are approximately the same as, well, a snowflake’s chance in hell. I like Hilo – the town at the foot of the mountain where most of the observatories are based – but really, the climate is ridiculous. They had 20 inches of rain in 24 hours, and it’s still raining now.
