Be prepared, be aware, turn around, don't drown, don't drive into those waters, don't put yourself into harms way.
It gets out much faster than if we had to stop and record these messages each time we issued a warning.
The taller that storm is, the more air that is rushing up. And as that air rushes up into the storm, it is making those winds turn with height, and that spinning is what causes the tornado vortex that drops down out of the cloud.
It is creating more instability in the atmosphere, allowing the thunderstorms to grow to sizes and heights that we don't normally see in Hawaii.
I actually am on record three weeks ago saying, 'no, this is just a normal wet period,' but we're definitely past that now.
Once or twice a year, we'll have one of those week-long cloudy weeks. And when they get those, they have the potential for a foot.
We're looking at a fairly rainy period for the state of Hawaii, mostly for Kauai and Oahu, beginning sometime tomorrow afternoon, late, and then running through Wednesday and possibly into Thursday moving down into Oahu.
In the normal pattern of things, those storms, those pieces of energy in that storm track will move out very quickly, and when they do they'll pull away.
We can say that in a period of 30 days we are seeing some near record, if not record, amounts in some of these locations.
Flooding will develop rather quickly in areas that have seen the heavy rains over the last thee weeks. It won't take much to push those areas back into a dangerous situation. So we all need to be aware of what's happening around us, especially this afternoon and tomorrow.
