07-17-2007, 08:58 AM
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The weather channel says most tropical storms are deflected or weakend, by the trade winds. Thats why very few hit the islands.
More specifically, I believe it's the high altitude wind shear that "cuts the heads off" the hurricanes in this area. But one shouldn't relax with that trend. Locally-based climatologists and meteorologists say that conditions do, and will, occur where a hurricane isn't dismantled before making landfall on the Big Island.