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I guess that 1871 hurricane on Hawaii Island, tracking right by Mauna Kea & on to Maui....was... well since it was mainly reported in Hawaiian Language news, maybe the doubters here do not believe that the events were reported correctly.... which would make them... mmmm....
It is so much easier to comment on things while "not sure about all those other mountains in Guatemala, Japan wherever but I was only referring to our two mountains there ol' Mauna Loa and Kea." & then not to know about the history of the storms here (even though this thread actually has the information...) well... and to be clueless about the nature of cyclonic storms in other areas with 4Km mountains... well... that is another kind of ....mmmm....
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"And besides, I am sure everyone here wants to hear how hurricanes beat out rocks. Especially when they are pile 14,000' high. How about some examples?"
The center of Iselle went right through the middle of the island and it wasn't even a hurricane. If the mountains didn't stop Iselle how would they stop much more powerful storms?
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Let's have that picture again (thanks HOTPE):
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlJYVe0VAAAzCB5?format=jpg&name=medium
I don't think that monster would even notice the Big Island, let alone its mountains.
That story with the previous one, about a volcano affecting a hurricane, very imaginative.
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Paul,
Earlier you were asking about the possibility of hurricanes turning eastwards in the central Pacific. I found a good example of when this happened; Hurricane Iwa in 1982:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Iwa
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glinda, ok, the 1934 Central American Hurricane disproves most every off-the-wall statement I have read on this storm...
did a full circular loop through the mountains(4km) of Central America, starting Atlantic traveling to the Pacific Shores then looping through inner Yucatan, into the Gulf of Mexico, never making it over Cat1, yet one of the deadliest storms ever on record & traveled up through the inner eastern seaboard to Nova Scotia...not torn to smithereens nor stopped by any of the land masses nor mountains it endured....
One storm, not a big one, disproving most of the hear-say rumors....
Add to that the 1871 and 1843 reported storms that did do hurricane force damage to our island & traveled beyond our island to do damage to other islands... & then that little Iselle storm & you get a picture that some folks would rather dwell in false beliefs than to look to data that has already been presented on this thread!
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everyone here wants to hear how hurricanes beat out rocks. Especially when they are pile 14,000' high. How about some examples?
How do hurricanes beat out rocks? Hurricanes are over 3 times taller, making it difficult for rocks to reach them:
The tallest parts of hurricanes are found in the strong convection of the hurricane's eyewall, a ring of thunderstorms totally surrounding the storm's eye. In most hurricanes these thunderstorms top out between 40,000 and 50,000 feet with the diverging upper winds spreading out a canopy of cirrus clouds from these thunderstorms over a hurricane.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-...nes-clouds
Hurricanes are also much, much wider than piles of island rocks. I've posted satellite images on this thread and the ISS thread, take a look. Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea are like dots compared to the vast expanse of Pacific waters covered by Hurricane Lane.
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Thanks TomK, all bets are off then! Poor Kauai, they seem to be cursed.
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"The center of Iselle went right through the middle of the island..."
As I recall, it nailed Pahala, got stuck there for a while, when proceeded to sputter out shortly after.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c..._track.png
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My goodness.. you must be one of those no good pot smokers geochem bitches so much about!
Where's that center? Iselle made landfall in Puna, bounce a bit and head out west over Kau, never even touching the center or any other part of the island. But then you, as the honorary president of the PW holier than thou society would know better, right?
You know that sort of line The center of Iselle went right through the middle of the island.. is just like Trump trying to rewrite reality with his constant droning of Fake News.. par for the course for someone that knows better than the rest of us I suppose.
Btw.. along the Hamakua coast there wasn't even 40 mph winds.. Something about how Mauna Loa and Kea blocked them.. Some rain yeah.. in fact one gauge I know of in Waipio got 24 inches.. but not not much wind.
