(08-07-2023, 02:54 PM)AaronM Wrote: If anyone actually "relies on this thread" for their weather information, I feel deeply sorry for them!
No kidding, with our wannabe scientist going on as if he's the second coming it's a joke..
As to wind's interaction with the islands, it is interesting to note how, again, on windy.com, we see the wind, graphically, altered by its interaction with the island as the current storm passes to our south.
And, just for fun, here's a few articles on the island's effects on the wind that passes through..
NASA has an interesting article call Little Islands Big Wake which includes this quote..
“If you look at a large region of the Pacific Ocean, you can barely see the Hawaiian Islands. But if you look at the winds or currents in that region, you can clearly see the influence of the Hawaiian Islands. It’s very pronounced.”
And then there's this article which posses the question How often do tropical systems impact the Hawaiian Islands? which in part says..
"These are mountainous islands, you throw in a weakening tropical system, and it's just going to cause a washout."
But of course, in Tom's addled mind the islands have no impacts. Sheesh, with his modeling there'd be no difference between the windward and leeward side of the island. And yet he claims to be a science.. go figure.