It's been snowing in Hawaii

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It’s been snowing in Hawaii
Mar 17, 2015
by Deborah Byrd in » Today's Image

Landsat 8 captured this view of the snow-capped summit of Mauna Kea on March 10, 2015. Image via NASA Earth Observatory and Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Last week, the National Weather Service issued several snowstorm and blizzard warnings for summits higher than 3,400 meters (11,000 feet) on the Big Island of Hawaii. Who knew? It turns out that snow isn’t unprecedented – although it is uncommon – on tropical peaks. The image above is from March 10, 2015, when some snowfall had already accumulated on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano and Hawaii’s highest point at 4,205 meters (13,800 feet) above sea level. As you can see, there’d been snow accumulation on Mauna Kea in the days before the blizzard warning, from storms in the first week of March.

The snowstorms in Hawaii have ended now, but not before closing the roads to Mauna Kea as described in the video below from March 13:

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1. just FYI - it snows on Mauna Kea seasonally

With snow measured in meters. In fact, "Mauna Kea" means "White Mountain"

http://www.hawaiiinfoguide.com/hawaii_skiing.htm