Meetings to focus on skateboard parks
The Maui Parks and Recreation Department will hold four community meetings to discuss plans for county skateboard parks in Upcountry Maui and on Molokai and Lanai.
Parks staff and design consultant California Skateparks will be at the meetings to receive community feedback on the conceptual designs for the proposed skate parks:
» Pukalani: 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Mayor Hannibal Tavares Community Center, 91 Pukalani St.
» Molokai: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. April 21 at Hale Mahaolu Home Pumehana, Room No. 1, 280 Kolapa Place, Kaunakakai.
» Lanai: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. April 22 at the Lanai Community Center on 8th Street.
Maui County experienced a wet March
WAILUKU » Many parts of Maui County saw above-average rainfall in March, the second consecutive month of similar rainfall patterns, the National Weather Service said.
Some parts of Maui had rainfall amounts unseen in a decade, the Maui News reported Monday.
The gauge at Waikapu Country Club collected nearly 6 inches, which is the most since 2004.
Hana Airport got nearly 12 inches, and Kahakuloa got more than 12 inches.
Both totals were the highest since 2005. Haiku’s more than 8 inches of rain and the nearly 7 inches in Pukalani were the wettest for those areas in nine years.
The highest March total was recorded in the National Park Service’s Puu Alii gauge on Molokai, which collected more than 48 inches. Nearly 32 inches fell in the area March 1-6.
Puu Alii’s gauge got 64.08 inches from January to March, which topped Puu Kukui, in West Maui, which is recognized as one of the wettest places in the world.
Puu Kukui got 47.16 inches for the three months, which was about half of its average rainfall.
March started with a rainstorm that brought heavy showers that ended March 6, the weather service said.
Three days later another storm brought widespread but light rain to Maui.
