• Summer highs are usually in the upper 80s °F, (around 31°C) during the day and mid 70s, (around 24 °C) at night. Winter day temperatures are usually in the low to mid 80s, (around 28 °C) and (at low elevation) seldom dipping below the mid 60s (18 °C) at night.
• Most of Hawaii has only two seasons: the dry season from May to October, and the wet season from October to April.
• Local climates vary considerably on each island, grossly divisible into windward (Koolau) and leeward (Kona) areas based upon location relative to the higher mountains. Windward sides face cloud cover. Hawaii therefore concentrates resorts on sunny leeward coasts.
• Recently, Hawaii has garnered additional attention as the location where U.S. President Barack Obama was born and spent much of his youth. Obama is the only president to hail from the state.
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• General introduction • Etymology • Geology • Climate • History • Culture • Customs and etiquette in Hawaii
• According to Pukui and Elbert, "Elsewhere in Polynesia, Hawaii – or a cognate – is the name of the underworld or of the ancestral home, but in Hawaii, the name has no meaning."
• The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to southeast) Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lānai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii. The last is by far the largest and is often called "The Big Island" to avoid confusion with the state as a whole. The archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania.
Climate
• Hawaii’s climate is typical for the tropics, although temperatures and humido near-constant trade winds from the east.
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Geology
• All the Hawaiian islands were formed from volcanic activity initiated at an undersea magma source called a hotspot. As the tectonic plate beneath much of the Pacific Ocean moves to the northwest, the hot spot remains stationary, slowly creating new volcanoes. Due to the hotspot’s location, Hawaii’s only active volcanoes are located around the southern half of the Big Island. Hawaii’s newest volcano, Lōihi Seamount, is located south of the Big Island’s coast.
Etymology
• The Hawaiian language word Hawaii derives from Proto-Polynesian *Sawaiki, with the reconstructed meaning "homeland"; Hawaii cognates are found in other Polynesian languages, including Māori (Hawaiki), Rarotongan and Samoan.