More Tropical Weather heading our way

[Opihikaobob]

Looks like another soon to come long stretch of wet weather heading our way.
In this link you see the entire Hemispheric Eastern Pacific in an 48 hr loop with updated images every 3 hours.

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/w...wv+/48h/3h

Notice that the direction of approaching weather is opposite of what is was for the last long stretch of wet weather - last time the circular flow was towards the west coast, ( at least the last week or so, although all our topical weather starts from off of South America), this time the flow of 3 systems ( at watch & warning stage) including Tropical Depression GENEVIEVE is heading West towards Hawaii and as you watch this current loop you will see it flow in a western direction South of the BI and then the weather systems makes a u turn and starts heading to the Kona side, and eventually the whole Hawaiian islands will be in this new wet weather pattern where at some point Trade winds will begin to begin to push towards us as well.

Tropical Depression GENEVIEVE:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics...ml?5-daynl

On this link we get commentary for the weather pattern that we are entering, specifically at 1:21 to 1:40 in the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x62uR7Mig7c&list=UUTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQ

[macuu222]

Our temperature gauge on our deck said 92 degrees at 11am this morning. That's in lower HPP in the shade. I walked around our back yard for 10 minutes and when I came back inside the house I was covered with sweat. I think I'm gonna start hanging out at Safeway until this humidity and heat back off...

[Peter Easterling]

This must be great news for the community relief center for hot and muggy days: Malama Market. Seems to be around 40 degrees there most of the time. I trust it is because of air-conditioning and not a confluence of galactic evil rays. But you never know.

[Tink]

Satellite link just got more interesting. Appears one front just hit a major Western front and "exploded" spreading cloud formations out and North towards all the islands. Have to check next hour to see what results are coming in.

Community begins with Aloha

[Opihikaobob]

quote:

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Originally posted by Peter Easterling

This must be great news for the community relief center for hot and muggy days: Malama Market. Seems to be around 40 degrees there most of the time. I trust it is because of air-conditioning and not a confluence of galactic evil rays. But you never know.

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Don't think their are evil galactic rays - but I do think their are evil galactic people.

[Opihikaobob]

As the days go by it is interesting (to me at least) to watch the progress of these events . Today I have listed 3 links from UW Washington (Seattle), and they cover our area of concern - all of the links need a high speed connection, or it will take much time to download.
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/w...i?wv+/24h/
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/w...nced+/24h/
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/w...is+/24h/2h

[Guest]

Thank you Opihikaobob,Great satilite view of hawaii and the pacific. Looking at the storm activity this morning, sure looks like an eye has formed in one of the storms heading towards Hawaii?. Also shows some serious weather forming just south of us, could that be reorganizing for a possible back door approach like Iniki?. Could get interesting being an unstable atmosphere is developing around Hawaii.

[steve1]

I have been watching Hurricane Iselle approaching for a couple days. At first it seemed to be approaching with slower winds and a lower projected latitude but it now appears the winds are stronger and the trajectory has been raised upwards toward us. Looks like it could be here next Friday or Saturday:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics...k#contents

[steve1]

Update: Iselle is now a category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds.
The predicted trajectory has also been aimed upwards closer to Big Island, though the storm is supposed to weaken some (after first getting stronger) before approaching us near the end of next week.

If you haven't voted yet you might want to take care of that earlier in the week because next weekend's weather may be intense.

[steve1]

Another Update: Iselle is now a category 3 hurricane with 115 MPH wind. Still scheduled to slow down some as it gets closer to colliding into Big Island. Current center projection of "cone of uncertainty" looks like it's aimed directly at Kapoho.

Side note: recently it was discovered that most people take female named hurricanes less seriously than male named hurricanes.