Posted on 02/11/2019 8:32:04 PM PST by EdnaMode
An extremely powerful winter storm is pulling away from Hawaii after unleashing damaging winds, massive waves, coastal flooding and snow in unusual places.
The storm, which the National Weather Service office in Honolulu described as “historic,” began pounding the islands Friday. Hawaii News Now reported a 66-year-old California man died in the rough surf off northwest Maui on Friday.
Forecasters “are calling this an unprecedented event and we concur that we rarely if ever have seen the combination of record high onshore waves, coupled with gale force winds,” said Sam Lemmo, administrator of Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).
The storm’s most extreme blow was generated on the Big Island’s towering peak of Mauna Kea, where a 191-mph wind gust blasted the mountain summit at 4:40 p.m. local time Sunday.
“That’s the strongest wind gust I’ve ever seen up there,” said Jon Jelsema, senior forecaster at the Weather Service office in Honolulu. “We tend to get a gust maybe to 150 mph once a winter or so, but never 191 mph.”
The visitor station on the 13,308-foot mountain is closed until Tuesday “due to the predicted continuation of severe weather,” according to the station’s website. The road is shut down whenever visibility drops below 50 feet, or winds gust to 65 mph or greater.
Hawaii saw a mixed bag of bizarre precipitation over the weekend. Several inches of snow fell on Haleakalā, a shield volcano in East Maui — something Jelsema described as “very unusual.”
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Hawaii has never been hit by a bad storm before?
Not in their life time!
Please try to keep perspective.////
I knew it was something like that. The Navy spent a lot of money dolling it up. Teak knobs and rails, tiles in places, and a totally different color scheme than us other boomer squids were used too. I heard they used to take certain Hawaii folks for little cruises when it was first commissioned. Then came Missile upgrades and they moved it to the East Pack.
More climate threats. Btw, how long have these stooges been monitoring winds at the summit Mauna Kea? A hundred years? Lets give them 200 years.
It’s a tiny sliver of time in regards to earth history.
What these stooges are really selling is...>>Let us control, tax you and regulate you more or the earth will kill you. It’s for your own good.<<
I remember quite a few winters ago EVERY STATE including Hawaii had snow storms that month.
It's been a tradition here on erf for billions of years.
When Hawaii’s Congressional delegation comes hat in hand begging President Trump for disaster money, he must politely but firmly remind them that every available dollar is needed to avert further disaster at our Southern border.
Let the Green New Dealers swim home to Hawaii
Of course they did. Like anyone who’s been to the top of Mt. Washington knows about wind. One thing though. This storm came down from the north. That is rare. And snow fell well below the 6K foot mark. That too is a first.
If it didn’t blow that odious Mazie Hirono straight into the ocean then it wasn’t powerful enough.
Its in the 60s and youre wearing sweaters and worrying about heat?
You actually had me there for a second. Good troll.
Assuming you know no better, when you live with temps in the 80-90° range daily, anything below 75° feels chilly.
They probably don’t have furnaces or even fireplaces.
Tomorrow I have to climb on a tractor to push snow out of my driveway. No cab no heat. That’s Idaho I chose to live here and I’m equipped for it. If I lived in Hawaii I wouldn’t have the clothes I’ll be wearing in the morning. You go to ground, you deal with your choices. Mother Nature throws a curve you put the ball in play and improvise, it is what it is. The sun don’t shine on the same little doggies ass every day. That’s why we cowboy up. What ever happens it’s Trumps fault.
Circa 1979 I was working in the North Sea. We had a severe storm with waves running 40 to 60 feet. We had to shut down operations on the drilling rig. All personnel were cleared from the decks and were in quarters. A freak wave hit our rig. It swept across the helideck that was over 115 feet above the water. It cleaned it off of service equipment. The pipe deck with containers was a shambles after that wave. Those containers weighed many tons. It was like a giant hand sweeping the decks clean. The wave even busted down the doors to our quarters. Those doors were not designed to be subject to waves as we were high above any normal waves. When the wave hit I heard all the noise and jumped out of bed into inches of cold seawater. I thought we were going down. I grabbed my survival suit and ran up the stairs to the exit. I did not say anything to the other guys in our quarters. I just wanted to survive. I did not need to say anything. If I had of slowed down they would have ran over me. We were scared.
Just a few months earlier the Alexander Kielland went down in the Norwegian sector. 123 men died. Some were my friends and co workers.
>>What these stooges are really selling is...>>Let us control, tax you and regulate you more or the earth will kill you. It’s for your own good.<<
don’t forget the w(h)ining, dining, 69ing plus the whole scam by which they skim transfer fees for brokering carbon credits between 3rd world despots and Western industrialized nations.
Who needs a fireplace when you can just warm up next to the active volcano.
Haleakala on Maui get snow pretty much every year, as do a couple others on the big island. There’s even a ski place.
“rare snow hits Maui”
Obviously it’s due to global warming!
Because after all, you freeze to death when you turn on your oven!
/ End sarc
aole pikikia
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