Yesterday was the first day of winter and a large, winter storm blessed us with rain in our lava desert home and snow on the volcanoes including Mauna Kea. I took a few photos from the Nohea community gates and also from the Mauna Lani resort entrance. Mauna Kea is covered all the way from it’s top at 13,800 ft to the 9000’ level in 2-3’ of snow-quite an accumulation. I’ve begun to see snow men at sea level where people have loaded snow into trucks and brought it down to build them in contrast to our typically tropical flora and millions of acres of lava rocks.

We hope everyone is having a glorious holiday season wherever you are come see us where 9 out of the world’s 11 climate zone exist-including snow capped volcanoes 🙂

Written by Rick Oliver on January 6, 2018
Posted in: Hawaii Life | Tags: Mauna Kea, Nohea, snow, winter