Wake Island's weather station was wiped out about 21 hours ago.
Reserving the name for my next surf band!
Wake Island's weather station was wiped out about 21 hours ago.
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Super Typhoon Knocks Out Weather Sensors
August 31st, 2006 @ 8:32pm
By AUDREY McAVOY
Associated Press Writer
HONOLULU (AP) - Typhoon Ioke knocked out Wake Island's weather sensors on Thursday as it lashed the isle with some of the central Pacific's fiercest winds in over a decade, the National Weather Service said.
Forecasters monitoring the 2.5-square-mile atoll's wind and temperature gauges from Hawaii said the instruments blew out as the storm approached with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and gusts of up to 190 mph.
The most recent data before the instruments failed indicated Ioke slammed the island with 78 mph winds and 100 mph gusts, said Henry Lau, a National Weather Service forecaster in Honolulu. That was before Ioke's eye passed north of Wake Island, he said.