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Show Hawaiian Climate Growing Warmer, Records Indicate Honolulu. While weather on the "mainland" is giving people plenty im think about, students of climatology in Hawaii Ha-waii are having their own problems prob-lems to puzzle over. Three changes have become apparent: Tradewmds in the Pacific have shifted their course. Hawaii's teit.-:-ature is gradually rising. Distribution of rainfall in the mid-Pacific mid-Pacific American territory is changing. chang-ing. Expert Makes Study. Some points in Hawaii are receiving receiv-ing 30 per cent more rain than they did 30 years ago while other points are receiving 21 per cent less. Every month in the year is slightly warmer than the corresponding period pe-riod 30 years ago. These are some of the conclusions John H. Voorhees, in charge of the U. S. Weather Bureau at Honolulu, has drawn from a study of records covering the period since the federal fed-eral government established an official offi-cial weather bureau there in 1904. The warmest December day in Honolulu in nearly half a century was December 8, 1935, when the maximum temperature was 84.6 degrees. de-grees. First public knowledje of an ap-j ap-j parent slight upward climb in Hawaii's temperature was obtained in 1925, when Edward A. Beals, at that time in charge of the U. S. Weather Bureau in Hawaii, reported report-ed to his department head in Wash- ingtT," that "Hawaii is growing I warmer year by year." |