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	<title>A Kauai Blog</title>
	<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog</link>
	<description>Living and hiking on the island of Kauai</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Eclectic Sunrise</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/autumn-sunrise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Reviews</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been a while since I posted a sunrise picture, but I'm looking for a short and easy post today.

We've been having a bit of nice Kona weather again. Yesterday was sunny but not hot, and the mountains were spectacularly clear most of the day. With no clouds, the night was almost chilly under a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wet, Wet, Wet</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/wet-wet-wet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Neighbor Islands</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Title with apologies to a band I never got into, but I know my college roommate liked them.]

Autumn has been gaining hold lately, with colder winds, rainy spells, and generally unsettled weather. I don't understand weather well enough, but unsettled weather on Kauai means there are also periods when there are almost no clouds. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Flossie</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/215/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/215/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone on Kauai is anxiously hoping that hurricane Flossy will spare the island. Memories and stories of hurricane Iniki's direct hit on Sept 11, 1992, are still vivid. Today, everyone says the weather is strange: there's lots of wind and the dark clouds at all altitudes with sunshine in between. It just doesn't feel like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Hot Water</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/solar-hot-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Homeowner</category>
	<category>Activism</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/solar-hot-water/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally had a solar hot water system installed in July, and I'm finally getting around to writing about it. 

Solar hot water is just a no-brainer in Hawaii. Electricity and propane cost 2-3 times as much as the mainland, and we probably receive 2-3 times as much solar radiation (I don't have the exact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink and Blue</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pink-and-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pink-and-blue/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been slowing down with the sunrises, but not for a lack of them. They're getting earlier and earlier, and I've slept through a few good ones. Last Wednesday, it was worth getting up at 6:20 am to catch this one:




You can see 3 bird silhouettes in the sky here, those are the white cattle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>47 Inches of Rain</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/47-inches-of-rain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The total rain that I measured for the month of March in my backyard rain gauge was 47.04 inches (119.5 cm). That's more rain than the 44.68 inches (113.5 cm) I measured for the entire year in 2005. Since I never posted that graph, here it is:



The number of sunny days in March could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is in the Air</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/spring-is-in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/spring-is-in-the-air/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another time for one of those change in season moments. A few days before the actual start of spring, the blue sky and warmer temperatures over the weekend made it seem as if spring had finally arrived. You could smell the exuberance of nature in the air, people were walking outside again. We didn't go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wetter Than Waialeale</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/wetter-than-waialeale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Waterfalls</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several days that each received more than 4 inches (10 cm) of rain last week, everyone was waiting for the sunshine to come back. Finally, the weather forecast called for a break in the clouds over the weekend. But before the storm was done, it had the final say: 7 inches (18 cm) of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Morning</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/a-good-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This cloudy weather really makes for the occasional spectacular sunrise. This one last week was a double-feature. First, the sun lit up the high clouds with fiery orange colors which could be seen through breaks in the low clouds. Here are two photos glued together:




About 10 minutes later, the high clouds had turned white but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nounou Waterfalls</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/nounou-waterfalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Waterfalls</category>
	<category>History</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The waterfalls on Nounou mountain, the Sleeping Giant, are so ephemeral because there is so little area on the upper slopes to catch and funnel the rain. It takes a lot of rain and a quick break in the clouds to see them. We had another four inches of rain last night, there were a [...]]]></description>
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