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Tropical Storm Flossie
« on: July 28, 2013, 08:53:26 PM »
I know:  it's a terrible name for such a destructive force.  Ironically it made a similar run on the islands in 2007.

The storm is right on the edge of "hurricane" but it's been intensifying during the day and cooling off at night.  It'll start raining at Hilo tonight and the center of the storm should make landfall on Monday.  Its track is a little unusual for being so far north-- instead of approaching from southeast of the islands and then recurving with an uppercut, it's coming straight in from the east.  It's expected to lose most of its energy over the Big Island and Maui from the atmosphere's high-pressure shear (which usually protects the islands while giving us our tradewinds) and the landmasses.  Even so the forecast is 15" of rain on those two islands, followed by 6"-10" on Oahu.  For once Kauai looks like they'll catch a break.

We've gone through our hurricane checklist, although the worst we expect is sustained winds of 60 MPH and maybe a few higher gusts.  We'll probably lose power on Monday or Tuesday and have it back by Wednesday.  Our daughter finished her Navy midshipman summer training last Friday and she won't fly back to college until Wednesday, so we have plenty of help for the disaster readiness & recovery.  I hope that at worst this is just a good warm-up drill for the rest of the season. 

I have the blog loaded up for the coming week, and the server is on the Mainland.  It should blunder on in autopilot (without my moderating of comments or spam) until I'm back online.

I think after Flossie dissipates there'll be a petition for NWS to replace that name with a better F-word...

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/cpac/flash-vis.html (this GOES looper takes a while to load up)
http://www.khon2.com/2013/07/28/central-pacific-hurricane-center-press-conference-for-current-ts-flossie-status/

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Re: Tropical Storm Flossie
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2013, 08:55:40 PM »
I'm glad you are prepared.  I hope it doesn't cause too much damage.

Stay as dry as possible!

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Re: Tropical Storm Flossie
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2013, 09:01:13 PM »
Hope that there's no damage and that you stay well.

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Re: Tropical Storm Flossie
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2013, 01:00:11 PM »
I think after Flossie dissipates there'll be a petition for NWS to replace that name with a better F-word...

We should petition the NWS to name EVERY storm with a better F-word...

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Re: Tropical Storm Flossie
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2013, 01:17:49 PM »
It can't be a worse name then the ones the Weather Channel cracked up for winter storms. http://www.weather.com/news/why-we-name-winter-storms-20121001
(BTW, it is a stupid practice--tropical storms and hurricanes have actual speed thresholds and such before gaining names, whereas winter storms...yeah.)

Hoping you get through the hurricane season OK, Nords.

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Re: Tropical Storm Flossie
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2013, 09:41:37 AM »
I think after Flossie dissipates there'll be a petition for NWS to replace that name with a better F-word...

We should petition the NWS to name EVERY storm with a better F-word...

ZING!  Well played.

I was sitting in the airport in Washington yesterday, headed home to Vegas, and there was an announcement that a flight to Honolulu was cancelled due to Tropical Storm Flossie.  I hadn't heard of it at that point (being too busy during my trip to pay attention to any news, or anything outside my family/friends), but that a storm was that big already surprised me.

Hope everyone there is/has been safe over the last day or two and continues to be so.
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