irabinovitch

Are you changing your travel plans based on the storms hitting this week?

We had booked a 2 week vacation on the Big Island, but now it looks like hurricanes and and tropical storms will hit pretty early into our trip. Should we look at cutting it short? Its sounding like the Big Island will get the worst of it.

nnn

Hoping the Islands come out fine from this.

slippahs

Looks like everyone is waiting for Iselle to make landfall on the Big Island. Things still look okay here on Oahu. Today was actually a very nice day. Tomorrow likely not so much.

DanTravels

...and waiting... and waiting...

The front of the storm got here. Bands of wind and rain (a phrase familiar to anyone who lives anywhere with hurricanes). Some trees down various places. Puna Geothermal Venture power plant had some trouble. Some people, both in Hilo and out in the country, lost power - ours was off for 4 hours downtown.

But the core of the storm never came ashore. At all. On the satellite imagery, Kumukahi Point (the east tip of the island) looked like a tool on a lathe, shaving away the body of the hurricane. The coldest cloud tops, and the heaviest water vapor, slid southwest parallel to Mauna Loa, and most of the worst of things has now gone south of the island.

We're still getting "soaking rain" here in Hilo, along with a bit more breeze than we have most nights... but watching the satellite time-lapse is amazing.

http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/satellite/ - look at "Hawaii" column, "Infrared" or "Water Vapor" views.

budget101

The Hawaii Island (Big Island) was hit very hard. Hopefully, Julio doesn't do any damage to paradise!