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A hurricane warning is in effect for Hawaii’s Big Island, and Maui according to the National Weather Service as the threat of heavy rain flash flooding and high surf as Hurricane Lane heads toward the state.  The hurricane has weakened slightly to a Category 4 storm, but it remains a threat to the entire island chain.  Rain associated with the hurricane has started to show up on radar off the Big Island and offshore buoys were detecting higher and normal wave heights.  Tropical storm force winds are expected to begin as early as Wednesday evening on the Big Island. 

Hurricane Lane
At 10:45 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (20:45 Universal Time) on August 21, 2018, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of Hurricane Lane. Around that time, Lane was a powerful category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 250 kilometers (155 miles) per hour. The storm’s center was 925 kilometers (575 miles) south-southeast of Honolulu. By that evening, Lane intensified to a category 5 storm. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens

 

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