Hurricane season 2016

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hurricane Lester Enters The Central Pacific

Lester is not yet receiving full analysis on the CPHC website, but in the meantime:

Hurricane Lester entered the Central Pacific as a strong category 4 hurricane on a path to pass near Hawaii this weekend.

Forecasters expect Lester to weaken to below major hurricane status over the next 48 hours as it takes a turn to the northwest, but it is likely to remain a hurricane as it nears Hawaii.
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[ElysianWort]

No more wind and it's 4:30. Okay so we have some flooding- no biggie. Phew. I feel like we dodged one there or is it too soon? And I'm not talking about Lester yet.

[Hawaii Bound]

We haven't dodged the flooding yet. Looking at the radar the rains and heavier winds should be hitting us between 6 and 7 pm tonight.

[terracore]

Wunderground keeps pushing the wind forecast back. Peak winds were originally forecast for 2pm, now they are 8pm.

Maybe the 5pm NWS update in 20 minutes will shed some light...

[b_a]

quote:

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Originally posted by gypsy69

Why does Puna or the Big Island have to be the new target anyway?

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It's Yahweh's wrath for not building TMT immediately and for all the troublemakers harassing PGV. Thus spake the Lord.

...we are everywhere...

[terracore]

"A U.S. Air Force
Reconnaissance aircraft had difficulty locating the center and
reported a maximum surface wind of 44 kt in the northwest quadrant.
However, the aircraft may not have sampled the strongest winds in
the northeast quadrant. Given the aircraft data and a blend of the
Dvorak estimates, the initial intensity is lowered to 55 kt for this
advisory."

ETA: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tcpages/arc...1609010248

[PunaMauka2]

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tc_graphics...d=EP142016

According to the surface wind field for Madeline, the boundary of tropical storm force winds remains just offshore of the south coast and looks likely to stay that way as Madeline continues to pass on by.

Been pretty much mainly heavy rain without much in the way of wind for a while now up Volcano.

[macuu222]

Just heavy rain in lower HPP (which has now stopped)...no real wind to speak of since this whole thing started. And we still have power! Also some good news about Lester. It's now down to cat 3 and forecast to weaken further to barely a cat 1 when/if it gets here.

[birdmove]

WhooHoo!!

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[kimo wires]

We were lucky, again.
The MSM will be hyping Lester now.
We are already out of the cone for it...
Deep Breath...Exhale...