08-05-2014, 02:52 PM
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Originally posted by Hawaii Bound
Why do you think that the mountains would keep a hurricane from hitting the island? The would protect one side of the island or the other if a hurricane actually ever hit the island but they wouldn't actually stop a hurricane from hitting the island.
That is just superstition in my personal useless two cents. Show me any type of scientific data that states otherwise. I would love to see that.
Part of the reason this persists is the mountain does shear the lower level air current and limits ground heating of the storm (like storms going across the midwest plains). Since it drops off so deep, we dont have the warm shallow water like the gulf to fuel the storm as much.
So the mountain protects us is a partly true statement.