Barreling Toward Hawaii, Hurricane Lane Now a Category 5

[Swordsmyth]

On Tuesday night, the National Weather Service announced that Hurricane Lane had become a Category 5 hurricane, which means that it's likely to cause catastrophic damage with winds 157mph or above. The hurricane is about 500 miles southeast of Honolulu, the AP reports, and had been moving west, but it's expected to turn northwest toward the state Wednesday. Earlier Tuesday, the weather service issued a hurricane warning for Hawaii island and a hurricane watch for Oahu, Maui, and other smaller islands, meaning tropical storm-force winds, excessive rain, and large swells could arrive starting Wednesday.
"It is much too early to confidently determine which, if any, of the main Hawaiian islands will be directly impacted by Lane," the Central Pacific Hurricane Center said, adding the storm will move very close to or over the islands from Thursday through Saturday. Even if the center of Lane doesn't make landfall, the islands could be walloped with rain and wind.

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[Zippyjuan]

Currently Cat 3. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weat...ng-triggers-landslides-across-hawaii/70005871

 

[Swordsmyth]

According to this site it is currently a Cat 3: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/

 

[oyarde]

I hope the Leper Colony will be OK .

 

[oyarde]

Early in the 1800's Hawaii was ravaged by the dirty europeans , over 30K dead in the first 53 years or so of that century from typhoid , VD , smalllpox , then came the oriental leprosy . Thousands more would be sent to the Leper colony to fend for themselves for the next 100 years .

 

[oyarde]

Rumors are , 31 inches of rain on the big Island .