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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Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.
191 MPH is a bit more than “gale force”.
Historic? Unprecedented?
Leftists lie about such stuff so regularly that claims should be dismissed until historic data from printed materiall published in the past can be examined.
Hawaii has never been hit by a bad storm before?
Wow, that kind of wind would push the CA to HI Green New Deal Train right off its Tracks.
191 was at the top of a mountain. They buried that in a later paragraph.
Historic and unprecedented are categorized under ‘recorded’ history which is a few hundred years. We don’t know what massive storm, hurricanes, hit a thousand years ago in the Americas
So, why don’t they call it a hurricane or cyclone?
Ever see a sea gull with a feather collar? If you had been up on that mountain walking down the road with your sea gull, you would have that day.
Recorded. Nothing happened before records.
Because it was not either one. Just a weather front.
Probably explains why the pinheads at the Weather Channel didn't "name" it "Winter Storm Kamehameha" or some such nonsense, then give endless and breathless stories on its effect on Hawaii.
The USN did name a 640 class ballistic missile submarine the “Kamehameha” after a tribal chief in Hawaii I think. It was a really nicely decked out boat stationed in Hawaii for years. I was on it once in Rota Spain. Maybe the name is verboten.
Historic!
Kamehameha was a king.
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We got sweat shirts, blankets, and cats. When my wife whines about the cold, I remind her of the bitching about the heat last summer.
We do get seasons, of a sort. And then a cold front moves through.
Did a Weather Channel reporter pilfer a tiki idol?
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