UPDATE: We've Had the Driest Winter In 30 Years, But What Does It Mean?

If you thought this past winter was unseasonably dry in your neck of the woods, you're not alone. The National Weather Service announced this month that the seven-month wet season, called a "hooilo" in Hawaiian, was one of the driest in the last half-century.

Kevin Kodama, senior service hydrologist with the National Weather Service's Honolulu branch, wrote in his most recent precipitation summary that the 2009-2010 wet season, which began in October and ended April 30, was among the driest of the last 55 years. Only three other wet seasons — 1997-1998, 1977-1978 and 1972-1973 — were in the same ballpark.

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