00:04Hawaii is under a state of emergency because of a really high-impact flood event that's in
00:10progress. We've got a few more days of this. This is driven by a Kona Low. What is a Kona
00:15Low? We're
00:16talking about an almost stationary zone of low pressure, a strong one. It's not sitting over the
00:22islands. It's west of the islands, but that in tandem with strong high pressure off to the east,
00:27which is really off the map. They're working together to drive this flow of tropical moisture
00:31right up into the islands. This is bringing some tremendous rainfall amounts. Early in the event
00:38here, we're up to 8 to 13 inches of rain. Mount Wealiali, a place notorious for excessive rainfall,
00:44one of the wettest places on earth. Just since midweek, we've had 13 inches of rain, but other
00:49areas that are a little less prone to significant rain on the southwest side and some of these
00:52islands. Typically on the drier side, you're getting into the flooding as well. So you can see
00:57it's not just rain, but also winter storm warnings on the summits. Yes, it does snow in Hawaii up on
01:02top of the volcanoes there on the big island. Winter storm warnings in effect. Extreme wind out there.
01:06There will be gusts of wind up to around 100 miles per hour in the highest elevations. High wind
01:12warnings for even the low elevations all the way down to the coastline for the central and western
01:16islands. So tremendous amounts of rainfall and unyielding flow here. It's an atmospheric river
01:22event hammering much of the central Hawaiian islands through the weekend with widespread flash
01:28flooding, damaging winds. And if we look at the atmospheric moisture content, a map we often show
01:32you when we're talking about hurricanes and tropical systems, you can see it's just a really persistent
01:37flow of high, high octane moisture right across the island. So what's that do for us? It dumps flooding
01:44rain. Some areas already over a foot at Mount Waialiali, but some areas will end up with well
01:50over a foot in areas that don't typically see this amount of rain. So this continues right
01:55through the weekend. Dangerous flood situation in Hawaii.
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