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Several factors give the summit of Wai‘ale‘ale more potential to create precipitation than the rest of the island chain:
# Its northern position relative to the main Hawaiian Islands provides more exposure to frontal systems that bring rain during the winter.
# It has a relatively round and regular conical shape, exposing all sides of its peak to winds and the moisture that they carry.
# Its peak lies just below the so-called Trade Wind inversion layer of 6,000 feet (1,800 m), above which trade-wide-produced clouds cannot rise.


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