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Did you utilize the control panel on the right? In addition to other things, you can choose wind speeds at different elevations.
Not until you mentioned it. That's cool.
Looks like the University of Hawaii site is giving more rapid updates now on rainfall totals, and well as their usual hourly reports of current barometric pressure and wind speeds.
That's an interesting site, Sherwoody. Although it shows the winds as coming from a slightly different angle than I seem to experience and expect. The website shows the wind hitting our house from the side I'd expected, but from the back corner instead of the front corner. Of course, we have trees and topography involved and the website winds don't.
Currently, here on the Hamakua coast, we have fog (which just rolled in), wind and fairly steady rain going up to pretty heavy rain at times. The winds seem to be ranging between ten to twenty MPH with gusts a bit higher, maybe up to just under thirty. Current time is 9 am on Saturday morning, July 23rd.
We also just got a flash flood warning alert that came over the phones. Considering how much rain has been coming down, that's understandable. Power is still up (yay!) as well as internet (double yay!). The newspaper appeared this morning, too.
Light rain, then slashes of heavy rain, light wind with slashes of heavy wind coming through. Fog lightened a bit. There's condensation dripping off the refrigerator, that's unusual. Drops of water on the screens behind the window panes, that's not generally usual either.
NOAA has been consistently putting Darby's movement at 9-12 mph over the last several reports. But for the last 15 hours or so the main areas of deep convection have barely budged. It's just sitting there taunting the Big Island with its bursts of deep convection.
Those are just the outer bands. If it sat over the Big Island like it's sitting now, it would have received over 20 inches of rain by now... if not more. Not sure how resilient the Big Island is to torrential and long-lasting rainfall but if that happened on Oahu there would be catastrophic flooding. Hopefully it picks up speed and passes over quickly. If it meanders over land it could get real messy. It is moving far slower than NOAA predicted.
That's an interesting site, Sherwoody. Although it shows the winds as coming from a slightly different angle than I seem to experience and expect. The website shows the wind hitting our house from the side I'd expected, but from the back corner instead of the front corner. Of course, we have trees and topography involved and the website winds don't.
Currently, here on the Hamakua coast, we have fog (which just rolled in), wind and fairly steady rain going up to pretty heavy rain at times. The winds seem to be ranging between ten to twenty MPH with gusts a bit higher, maybe up to just under thirty. Current time is 9 am on Saturday morning, July 23rd.
We also just got a flash flood warning alert that came over the phones. Considering how much rain has been coming down, that's understandable. Power is still up (yay!) as well as internet (double yay!). The newspaper appeared this morning, too.
Light rain, then slashes of heavy rain, light wind with slashes of heavy wind coming through. Fog lightened a bit. There's condensation dripping off the refrigerator, that's unusual. Drops of water on the screens behind the window panes, that's not generally usual either.
I would suggest that everyone enter your own location in the search window rather than use my link. My link has my chosen view. Here is what I get when entering "Hawaii Island" in the search window. As I said above, you can enter your particular elevation also. I like this site because it's user friendly and simple as I'm not much of a meteorologist.
With 4-5 storms currently lined up, buying some water isn't a terrible idea - what I don't understand is why people already don't have prep items. A natural disaster can strike anytime on the BI and to a lesser degree the other islands (earthquakes should not be underestimated with active volcanos and shifting fault lines).
No kidding, we always have at least a week's worth of supplies around, however still working on that 'Lava Protector Shield' in case Haleakala goes nuts.
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Luckily, I still have enough duck tape for taping the cats down to something heavy for the upcoming makani nui. I tried finding some cat tape, but COSTCO didn't have any.
Pro Tip: we always get our cat tape at Lowes, they never run out!
Light wind. Only sprinkles on Oahu. I had the misfortune of going to Walmart today near Ala Moana and not crowded and looked to have enough bottled water to quench all of Oahu's thirst.
Since my car doesn't need gas I have not seen many people at the gas stations I've driven by.
Now Wunderground has it going South of the Islands.
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