HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT... ...PROBABILITY OF TROPICAL STORM/HURRICANE CONDITIONS... BASED ON THE LATEST FORECAST...THERE IS A 4 PERCENT CHANCE FOR HURRICANE CONDITIONS OVER THE NORTH SIDE OF THE BIG ISLAND. ALSO...THE CHANCE FOR TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS AT THIS TIME RANGES FROM 15 TO 45 PERCENT FROM SOUTH TO NORTH ACROSS THE BIG ISLAND. THIS REPRESENTS A SLIGHT UPWARD TREND SINCE THE LAST FORECAST.
At 1100 AM HST (2100 UTC), the center of Hurricane Lester was located near latitude 18.4 North, longitude 144.8 West. Lester is moving toward the west near 13 mph (20 km/h). This motion is expected to continue into the afternoon, followed by a gradual turn toward the west-northwest later today through Saturday. Maximum sustained winds are near 110 mph (175 km/h) with higher gusts. Gradual weakening is forecast during the […]
AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A MAGNITUDE OF 7.1 OCCURRED OFF THE EAST COAST OF NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND AT 1638 UTC ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 2016. * BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA... THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT BECAUSE THE EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED TOO DEEP INSIDE THE EARTH.
We are mostly done with Hurricane Madeline and now on to Lester. While Madeline went South of the Island and is still actually below the Island heading Southwest, packing 50mph winds, not much trouble should be had here in Kohala. However, Lester will do the exact opposite, passing us East & North. At 500 AM HST (1500 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Madeline was located near latitude 16.7 North, […]
Hawai‘i Electric Light power restoration update; offices closed on September 1 Nearly All Customers Restored HILO, Aug. 31, 2016 (8:45 p.m.) – Hawai‘i Electric Light’s business offices, including the Customer Service and Customer Engineering offices, will remain closed on Thursday September 1, 2016. The Company will continue to address customer outages caused by Tropical Storm Madeline on Thursday. Customers may still reach the company to report power outages and downed […]
Starting tomorrow, all County and State facilities, offices and services will be restored including Hele-On Bus service starting with the 3:15 AM bus to West Hawaii. Solid waste transfer stations and landfills will open according to regular schedule. County Parks will open and programs will resume on a case by case basis pending damage assessments that will occur tomorrow morning. UH Hilo and Hawaii Community College will reopen tomorrow. DOE […]
WINDS... GUSTS TO 60 MPH HAVE ALREADY BEEN MEASURED NEAR THE KOHALA MOUNTAINS UPSLOPE FROM KAWAIHAE. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED NEAR KAMUELA...KAWAIHAE...WAIKOLOA...AND SOUTH POINT. IN SOME AREAS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 70 MPH WILL OCCUR THROUGH TONIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO HAVE THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE OVER MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN... THROUGH PASSES...AND WHERE WINDS BLOW DOWNSLOPE. WINDS […]
SUMMARY OF 500 PM HST...0300 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...18.2N 141.2W ABOUT 915 MI...1470 KM E OF HILO HAWAII ABOUT 1105 MI...1780 KM E OF HONOLULU HAWAII MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...195 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 280 DEGREES AT 14 MPH...22 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...959 MB...28.32 INCHES DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK ------------------------------ At 500 PM HST (0300 UTC), the center of Hurricane Lester was located near latitude 18.2 North, longitude 141.2 West. Lester […]
SUMMARY OF 500 PM HST...0300 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...18.0N 155.1W ABOUT 115 MI...190 KM S OF HILO HAWAII ABOUT 290 MI...470 KM SE OF HONOLULU HAWAII MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...65 MPH...100 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...WSW OR 250 DEGREES AT 12 MPH...19 KM/H At 500 PM HST (0300 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Madeline was located near latitude 18.0 North, longitude 155.1 West. Madeline is moving toward the west-southwest near 12 mph (19 […]
