I wish that I had taken my own photo, but we were on the way to school and looked up to the mountain (Haleakala, a dormant volcano - but it has erupted more recently than some volcanoes on the Big Island) and what do we see? SNOW!
Danielle saw it first. She says in the car, "Hey mom, isn't that snow up there?" And I don't even look and replied that I didn't think Haleakala was tall enough to get snow. Then I looked....and sure enough, there was snow. The picture above is sort of the view that we had, zoomed in of course, from the highway on the way to school. Unfortunately you couldn't actually see the snow from school - the school is right off the highway, but kind of sunken and has LOTS of mature trees, normally a great thing:) And there was too much cloud cover today, so I don't know if it melted or not yet.
But let me tell you - a weird feeling to be dying of heat in 80 degree weather, and then looking up and seeing snow on the mountain peak. Though, I have learned that it is 10,000 feet above sea level at it's peak, WAAAAY taller than I thought! But it only snows here on Maui every few years or so when the conditions are right. However, it snows on the Big Island pretty much every winter - all winter long. Strange what elevation does to weather!
Now that's some snow that I can love - from a far!
2 comments:
No fair! If you miss it-you can come shovel some for me..Eric's traveling and I've got to shovel lately. The other day it actually got above freezing and I saw some of my lawn..but we got more snow..so bye bye lawn!
I didn't know you got snow on the big island-crazy..
Hope you're doing okay.
Go Danielle! That is comically, snow on your island! And you learned something new: that mountain is taller than you thought. Best kind of snow: looks pretty and you don't have to shovel or driving in it.
I think about that Christmas in Draper trying to get the car up the hill! but couldn't.
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