Posted on 08/22/2018 10:56:33 PM PDT by American Quilter
A hurricane warning has been issued for Oahu as Lane continues to track toward the islands as a massive Category 4 storm.
The Big Island and Maui County also remain under a hurricane warning, while Kauai County is under a hurricane watch.
Lane was centered about 260 miles south of Kailua-Kona — or 385 miles south-southeast of Honolulu — and has slowed to just 8 mph.
Hurricane Lane passed just south of the Big Island on Wednesday morning and is now marching northwest, bringing it "dangerously close" to the island chain as a hurricane Thursday through Saturday.
Heavy rains from Hurricane Lane started to impact the Big Island and Maui on Wednesday, triggering flooding in some spots, and forecasters warn the cyclone's "very close" pass on Thursday and Friday is slated to bring strong winds, torrential showers and monster surf to the entire island chain.
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“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.”
NOAA
Roughly the distance of Miami to Daytona - or Boston to Trenton.
385 miles south-southeast of Honolulu
Or a bit closer than Chicago to Memphis.
In other words, not really very close.
Perhaps the islands will turn over like Guam.
or it might fill up and sink
I will repost from the dead thread from yesterday...
everything is on track ..Lane waekening due to shear...but already over a foot of Rain on the big island
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this is very concerning...the main factor being huge amounts of rain and mudslides
if one looks at google Maps of Honolulu area for example...there are many homes built in valleys, slopes and runoff areas...
some notes:
1) this is the closest a CAT 5 has gotten to the Islands in recorded history...it will weaken but not the rainfall
2) The track is just SW of the Islands..this puts the islands on the dirty right side....also increasing SW shear will push the convection to the NE of center
3) any SE facing slopes will enhance any rainfall
4) Lane will leave a train of highly anomalous moisture in its wake...which will cause heavy rain to fall well after it passes
5) there are 1.4 million people on the Islands but only room for something like 300,000 people in shelters
**THIS MAY BE THE WORST MODERN NATURAL DISASTER IN HAWAIIAN HISTORY ****
Bump.
Hurricane Lane seen from Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIuzI-uDmOw
see post #58
Oh wow.
Innovative thinking!
“In the Pacific, they’re called “typhoon”.”
I thought the same. Looking back over past years it appears that NOAA calls storms in the eastern Pacific Hurricanes.
**THIS MAY BE THE WORST MODERN NATURAL DISASTER IN HAWAIIAN HISTORY ****
If so the politicization of it from the Dems will be equally epic.
I should add there is no analog for this storm...there has never been a large powerful hurricane moving in from the south and basically stalling..
Hurricane Iniki in 1992 moved in from the south but only hit the low populated small western islands..and it was moving rather fast
I believe the peaks on the eastern islands will be the highest any hurricane has approached on record (13,000 ft)
This is greatly enhance rainfall...
The Dominican Republic is home to the Caribbean’s highest peak, Pico Duarte (10,128 ft.)
bttt!
very concerned about the northern portion of the big Island the next few hours
up to 17 inches of rain had already fallen
radar is showing a long fetch of a feeder band moving in
Excellent soundtrack to that hurricane!
No change to previous thinking
Now a CAT 2(winds 110 MPH but it seems to be growing in size)..with over 30 inches of rain down on the big island
The core of the storm should start moving in soon
Worst case is if Ouha gets the heavy rain bands parked over it
the worst MAY be just east of them however rainfall wise
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