Hurricane LanePosted on 08/21/2018 3:55:15 PM PDT by topher
1100 AM HST Tue Aug 21 2018
Location: 14.3N 153.2W
Max sustained: 155 MPH
Moving: WNW at 9 MPH Min pressure: 941 MB
Hurricane Lane
Keeps curving more and more to hit more of the Hawaiian Islands...
Is it frontpage? Is it breaking?
I do not want to get into the "sidebar moderator's" doghouse.
Travelers to Hawaii need to be aware of this...
Could all that rain put out the volcano? /s
The Pacific Ocean could not put out the volcano. Hehehehe
Whew! My son and family just got home from Hawaii——good timing,for us.
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Read a bit ago that Hawaiian Airlines was offering waivers for those leaving or arriving next few days.
It’s NOT a hurricane.
NOT in the Pacific.
I grew up on the Oregon coast - on the ocean - front row.
We had an anemometer (rare and expensive in the day) and I recall watching it hit 120 MPH then - POOF - nothing as it was blown off of the roof.
Lots of property damage, etc. but not a hurricane, just a tropical storm.
Enviro-weenies want to change the reporting of Pacific storms to ‘hurricane’ status’ to PROVE ‘climate change.’
There IS a storm in Hawaii. It’s NOT a hurricane.
... and then the hurricane will go away.
I thought in the Pacific they were typhoons?
The brain - dead masses wouldn’t know a typhoon from a taco. So......
Sounds like a plan!
Didn’t they used to call storms in the Pacific, Typhoons?
I ain’t afraid of no Typhoons. I ain’t afraid of no pirates neither.
In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a typhoon. Meanwhile, in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, the generic term tropical cyclone is used, regardless of the strength of the wind associated with the weather system.
In 1957 for example:
The 1957 Central Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season
The following are excerpts from U.S. Weather Bureau Climatological Data records by David I. Blumenstock, Weather Bureau Climatologist for the Territory of Hawaii at that time.
From the Weather Summary for Hawaii - August 1957:
"The most remarkable weather events of the month were the appearance in the general area of the Hawaiian Islands of two tropical storms, each of which later developed into a full-fledged hurricane. Since there was a tropical storm in Hawaiian waters during July also, this brought to three the total number of such storms thus far. And since even one identifiable tropical storm during the year is a most unusual event in this area, the present season has most certainly been outstanding in this respect. it is noteworthy that at the same time the number of tropical storms and typhoons in the Western Pacific has been running decidedly below average. It seems likely that this inverse correlation is more than merely coincidental, although the circulation anomalies that would account for such a correlation have not been identified."
And, from the Weather Summary for Hawaii - September 1957
"The most striking feature of the weather of September in the area of the Hawaiian Islands was the continual appearance of tropical storms. Such storms, which have been relatively abundant this past summer, are very unusual so far to the west of Mexico and so far to the east of the Marianas and Caroline Islands. Of the three tropical storms of the month, only one developed into a true hurricane with winds above 65 knots."
Note the differentiation between "tropical storm" and "hurricane". A link to the above quoted text is in my next post...
11AM HST NWS products are saying this is a high end Cat 4 storm. This is a classic ply bad set-up for Kauai. The storm parallels the island chain off the coast and then runs out across Kauai.
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