00:00It's been a wild week in Hawaii between volcanic eruption, but now Okona Low has brought over half a foot
00:06of rain to some areas, and they're just getting started, unfortunately.
00:09Flash flooding has been ongoing in western parts of Hawaii, and Okona Low looks a lot like this.
00:15We're going to pull the map out. Strong, persistent, stationary zone of low pressure northwest of Hawaii, and these often
00:21lead to flooding.
00:22Typically, the wet side of the island is actually the east side, so the typically drier sides of the islands,
00:28the southwest sides, are getting all this tropical moisture upslope up against the mountains,
00:32and the southwest coast of the island is getting hammered with very, very heavy rain, and we're looking at snow,
00:38heavy snow, into the volcanic summits.
00:40So far, very early in the event. Again, this is just the beginning of this.
00:46We've had 5 to 8-plus inches of rain in areas like Kauai and Oahu over 5 inches of rain,
00:52and again, we've got plenty more to come.
00:54So flood watches and at times even flash flood warnings have been in effect.
00:58The summits, yeah, we're looking at Hawaiian snow, heavy snow there for some of the high elevations in the Big
01:04Island up in the volcanic peaks there.
01:06But high wind watches are in effect. We can see gusts of wind upwards of 100 miles per hour in
01:10the highest elevation.
01:10So we're in the red zone here. Widespread flash floods, damaging winds, locally severe thunderstorms even.
01:16That's a rarity in Hawaii. And power outages, road closures, mudslides, debris flows.
01:21We're going to be dealing with all kinds of problems.
01:22This map here shows the atmospheric moisture content, the deep red, high-octane fuel.
01:27This is often what we show in the hurricane season, showing where the moisture is abundant over the ocean.
01:32And you can see we're just locked in. This is through Saturday. It just continues.
01:36So take a look at the timeline here and the weekend. Excessive rain continuing Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Hawaii.
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