{"id":12808,"date":"2018-08-26T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2018-08-26T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:25:51","slug":"hurricane-lane-set-to-go-down-in-hawaiis-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12808","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Lane set to go down in Hawaii’s record books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tropical Storm<\/a> Lane will go down in Hawaii’s history as one that made it into several top five categories in terms of strength and amount of rainfall.<\/p>\n

Lane formed as a tropical storm in the eastern Pacific on August 15 and became a hurricane<\/a> the following day.<\/p>\n

At one point it reached category 5 status, making it one of the few to ever reach this strength this close to Hawaii.<\/p>\n

It is now beginning to pull away from Hawaii as a tropical storm.<\/p>\n

Lane is the strongest hurricane to track within 482km of Hawaii, according to NOAA’s historical database. On Tuesday, August 21, Hurricane Lane strengthened to a category 5 hurricane, the first since Loke in 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lane has also been the most intense North Pacific hurricane, east of the International Date Line, since Patricia in 2015<\/p>\n

But the strength of the storm is just part of its impressive characteristics. There is also the amount of rain that Hawaii’s Big Island has received.<\/p>\n

The greatest amount recorded was Mountain View, located in the higher elevations of the Big Island, receiving 1,192mm since Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Waiakea Uka, located just south of Hilo on the Big Island, has picked up 1,177mm since Wednesday, while Piihonua picked up 1,135mm of rainfall through Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The Big Island rainfall totals are putting Lane in the top four rainfall records of rainiest US tropical cyclones<\/a> on record with Amelia in 1978 receiving 1,219mm, Hiki in 1950 with 1,320mm, and Harvey in 2017 producing a staggering 1,538mm of rain for Texas.<\/p>\n

Hilo also broke a three-day record, picking up 809mm of rain from Wednesday to Friday, making it the wettest three-day period ever observed in Hilo since records began in 1949.<\/p>\n

The heavy rain has been responsible for road flooding on the Big Island, including the town of Hilo, and mudslides and landslides<\/a> have occurred, blocking numerous roads.<\/p>\n

As Lane now continues to head to the west and then northwest, bands of heavy rain will continue to drench the Hawaiian islands through at least Sunday, and potentially into Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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