It’s weaker: Hurricane Lane is now a Category 3 storm after weakening over the last 24 hours.Here’s what you need to know about Lane now: Hurricane Lane has weakened as it approaches Hawaii, but it’s still a powerful storm that has unleashed torrential rainfall, flooding and landslides over parts of Hawaii’s Big Island. Sunday: By Sunday morning, the storm is forecast to be weaken to a tropical storm as it moves away from Hawaii. Rains and winds will diminish.Ī man takes photos of floodwaters from Hurricane Lane rainfall on the Big Island Wednesday Mario Tama/Getty Images.Saturday: Lane will remaine a hurricane, but winds will be down to 80 mph by Saturday afternoon. Heavy rains will continue to pound the northern half of Hawaii, and flash flooding will remain the primary concern.Tonight: Heavy rain will continue, and flash flooding will become likely over Maui, Oahu and Molokai. The slow-moving storm will slowly weaken into a Category One storm. Honolulu will likely see their strongest winds from the storm, with gusts over 60 mph. Power outages a few isolated tornadoes are possible. While the storm is forecast to begin moving west (and away from Hawaii), there is still at least the possibility that the storm could make landfall on Oahu or Molokai - if the storm does not turn.Today: The dangerous core of Lane will continue to drift slowly north. The storm will likely drop to a Category 2 (with winds between 96 and 110 mph), as tropical storm conditions spread over Maui and Oahu. Rain will begin to end over the Big Island by late today.Here’s a day-by-day look at what to expect: Hurricane Lane is making its way northward now, but we’re expecting it to eventually turn west, likely avoiding landfall on the Hawaiian Islands. #hawaii #maui #hurricanelane #fire #puunoa #launiupoko /YuIU3WfwsG- Speicher Group August 24, 2018 100s of homes evacuated and multiple homes lost. The cause of the fire is unknown.Ĭell phone service in the area is said to be sporadic due to the storm, and the county says that customers may be unable to make or receive phone calls into or out of the Lahaina area at this time. There are no reports of injuries at this time. The fire, which is estimated to be 3 to 4 acres in size has begun to spread and residents in the area are being evacuated, the alert says.Ī nearby storm shelter has also been moved from the Lahaina Intermediate School to the Lahaina Civic Center, the county notes. Maui County emergency personnel responded to reports of a brush fire near Lahaina’s Kauaula Valley about 1:00 a.m., according to the alert. What he found was that the Big Island and its mountains blocked the trade winds and turned the storm towards the right (into Oahu and overnight brush fire has closed roadways and prompted evacuations near Maui’s resort area of Lahaina, according to a Maui County emergency alert. In his computer simulations, he took Hurricane Iniki from 1992, which struck the island of Kauai head on, and moved the storm a couple hundred miles further east so that it headed up into Oahu (pretty much the same track that Lane has taken so far).Ĭhambers calls this “the nightmare scenario.” Since we haven’t seen a storm like this in this region, just how the storm will react is all theory. But one scientist simulated this exact scenario years ago - and his results paint a potentially scary scene.Ĭhristopher Chambers, a research scientist at Hokkaido University in Japan, has spent 10 years analyzing the effect the Big Island imparts on hurricanes around Hawaii. The hurricane is due to turn left eventually, but the timing is dependent upon those trade winds pushing the storm to the west. The Big Island can block the trade winds that blow from east to west, which could allow Hurricane Lane to maintain its intensityĪnd then there’s the matter of the big turn. More than 80: The number of generators that have been distributed throughout the four counties, according to FEMA.2: How many disaster medical assistance teams FEMA has in position and on standby.3: The number of urban search and rescue teams FEMA says are standing by in Oahu, Kauai and Hawaii.Between 2,500 to 3,000: The number of people the Red Cross expects to shelter by Saturday.There are additional shelters on standby in the event they are needed. 45: The number of Red Cross evacuation centers now open throughout the four-county area.More than 2,000: How many people are at Red Cross shelters now (about 500 more people entered shelters Friday morning).1,526: The number of people who stayed in 36 Red Cross shelters Thursday night.Red Cross and FEMA officials just gave an update on their efforts in Hawaii as the state continues to battle Hurricane Lane. A man stands along the beach as waves crash on shore in Honolulu, Hawaii on Thursday AP Photo/John Locher
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