07-23-2016, 03:48 PM
"But more seriously, how’d that work out? I see nothing dramatic about the satellite record yet Darby didn’t come anywhere close to making anything but a glancing blow to Puna. In fact it seems to me to have done pretty much what I said it would. It remained off shore to the South of the island as it moved West."
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tcpages/arc...1607240307
"The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flew through Darby for a
good portion of the day, and departed the storm just before the
poorly-defined center came ashore over the southeastern portion of
the Big Island near Pahala around 2 pm. The center is estimated to
be traversing the southern slopes of the Big Island at this time."
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tcpages/arc...1607240307
"The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flew through Darby for a
good portion of the day, and departed the storm just before the
poorly-defined center came ashore over the southeastern portion of
the Big Island near Pahala around 2 pm. The center is estimated to
be traversing the southern slopes of the Big Island at this time."