That secret is revealed at an adjunct to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration where the Climate Prediction Center resides at http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/.
If you go directly to http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov:80/products/ predictions/monthly_climate/current_outlook/fxhw40.doc, you will find our government's best guess at next year's Hawaiian weather.
Chip Yu, a University of Hawaii junior researcher, maintains the site that draws on data from around the Pacific.
If you find the weather data a bit arcane, here's a hint: Yu doesn't advise selling that umbrella.
Another local site soon to become famous is the one developed by Hawaii OnLine, a product group of GST Telecom Hawaii.
The site Planet Hawaii at http://planet-hawaii.com is to be featured Monday at 10 p.m. on Discovery Channel's Secrets of the Internet.
The show is a special three-part look at the online world.