THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

"Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!" Charles Dudley Warner

In a seemingly-natural calm state, the atmosphere provides clear and sunny skies. In reality, however, the atmosphere is roiled with huge blobs of air bulldozing their way across the landscape, streams of wind colliding with mountains and each other, spotlight intensity heating, torrential rains, hurricanes, lightning and other general mayhem. All of this energetic chaos, we call weather.

In this chapter, we take a scientific look at the causes of weather patterns and how they apply to the Hawaiian Islands.

NOTE: This is the longest chapter in the Book.