HONOLULU (AP) – The first snow of the season has fallen at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island.
A weather system that brought heavier rain to the rest of the state sprinkled the state’s highest peak with a bit of snow on Tuesday.
Victor Dejesus, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Honolulu office, says the system is weakening but still around. It may bring some heavy rain and thunderstorms to the state Thursday and Friday.
Dejesus says an upper level disturbance led high altitude temperatures to drop significantly, causing it to snow.
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