08-22-2018, 02:49 PM
I believe that such tall mountains can have some effect on the felt impact of storms but to an unknown degree. The map above showed only 18 hurricanes since 1950, not statistically relevant. Human nature is such that people will conclude that the Big Island is protected on some fundamental level. This is unknowable based on only a dozen or two storms since we've been keeping track in the last half century. What I object to is when people claim to know an essentially unknowable thing. I am not claiming that anything can't be true.