Non-Conforming Bedrooms. A room must conform to specific requirements in order for it to be considered a bedroom or sleeping room. The reason for this law is that the inhabitant must be able to quickly escape in case of fire or another emergency. Why would a homeowner use a non-conforming room as a bedroom?
The main islands of Hawaii, the Society Islands and the Windward islands face into the northern trade winds. They were frequent stops during the trade by ship era of history.
The prevailing surface winds over the tropical ocean are the trade winds that blow persistently from the northeast (toward the southwest) in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast (toward the northwest) in the Southern Hemisphere.