2018 Hurricane Season

[Chunkster]

You can easily scare yourself by looking at any number of models. At this point the "consensus" track and official forecast shows Olivia just brushing the south shore of Maui. Weather Underground has a map showing five of the six models they consider most accurate. They do not, however, show the European Model which is the one they consider most accurate due to its owners restrictions on publication. The NOAA has said in a recent published discussion release on Olivia that the European Model shows her hitting Oahu. Here is the link to the models map followed by a link to WU's evaluation of those models:

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/c...?map=model

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/models.asp

It's way too early to know what this thing is going to do, but I know what I'm doing. I'm topping off my drinking water supply and filling the reserve tanks for the generator. If it really looks grim, I will secure the loose objects and put the plywood on the picture windows. May even cut down a tree that I don't really like anyway.