Loading ...Hurricane Lane has made the right turn and is marching north- northwest closer to the island chain.
This will definitely bring Tropical Storm force winds to all the islands, and likely hurricane force winds to Oahu and Honolulu at it’s close pass. It is category 4 now and expected some weakening… but they have expected that for two days now and so far it is stable about 155 mph, just below Cat. 5. Back in 1994? hurricane Iniki was a Cat 5 that slammed into Kauai island dead center, and we still had hurricane force winds measured on the west shore of Oahu island.
Now compare that path above to this satellite image of the size of the storm. Most of the moisture is in the Northeast quadrant of the storm, and that area will be dragging slowly across ALL of the islands… a recipe for intense flooding.
I have had intermittent rain overnight here in East Hawaii, and rain all day today with intermittent bands of heavy rain passing. It will get worse over the next two days as the storm passes the west side of the Big Island. The VERY critical part of the forecast is that left turn as it nears Oahu. It’s already too close for comfort, and if it does not make that sharp turn, Honolulu will get slammed hard. Being that we have small power grids on these islands, an island grid can go down completely if one section is storm damaged. My generator, fuel, and connector wiring is ready. Self sufficient solar hot water, too.
Moggy- Move to the mainland? Whatever for? This is paradise! 🙂