Grrr, wind
While the rest of the country particularly in the Southeast had much worse damage, we had our own
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Busy week
We have Madeline the hurricane approaching the Big Island tomorrow evening, we have Lester the hurricane following that on the weekend, and we have President Obama here to address the World Conservation Congress meeting this week. Ain’t we got fun?
Hot hot hot!
79 degrees F at 8:00PM, but it feels like 87 degrees! 82% humidity! You’d think it was the freakin’ tropics or something!
Mayoral race
We have a mayor’s race out here in Honolulu with three familiar faces: the incumbent, his predecessor, and a guy who’s spent his political life as a Republican who says no. No to everything. No to taxes. No to infrastructure. No to education. So of course he’s leading the polls at the moment, and the …
Hot and sticky!
The weather here, I mean. After doing two loads of laundry and folding the results I decided I didn’t want to cook over a range or oven, so I got takeout. I’m not saying where; I’ll be laughed at if I do.
Darby and vulnerability
It’s a nice Irish name spent on a scary tropical storm. You feel like a sitting duck out here, completely at the mercy of the water temps and the air currents above. You can’t drive far enough to get out of the way, often the airports will be shut down so you couldn’t fly elsewhere …
Amazing video from the Eddie
During every surf contest the Honolulu Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services teams are out on the beaches and in the water. They have some jet skis to assist in getting people in trouble on shore rapidly. Yesterday during the Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau event Natasha Torcuato flew a drone overhead and got this …
We’ve got some really big surf this week
I’m talking 30-40 foot waves. Here’s a slideshow from one of our TV stations. The surf may be big enough and well-formed enough to hold the Eddie Aikau contest on Thursday and if not then possibly Friday. The contest is invitation-only for 28 of the best big-wave surfers in the world, named for a man …
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Our North Shore, ladies and germs
The photo is from December. The forecast is for waves bigger than the one shown there. Surf is expected to rise to 35 to 45 feet today [Wednesday] for the north shores of Oahu, Maui County and Kauai County. The west shores of Oahu, Kauai County and Molokai could see up to 20 to 30 …