Edouard rains, potentially bad scenario setting up for Kauai (Hawaii)

Edouard may not have been much of a tropical storm from a wind/storm surge standpoint, but it is dumping epic amounts of rain in Texas. The radar-derived totals over the last three days are 22 inches in places!

This morning it is still raining, and all that water is still trying to get to the Gulf, so more flooding is in store.

The rest of the Atlantic is clear and should stay quiet for the next week or so.

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The East Pacific is busy, and Hawai’i is back in the crosshairs. Hurricane Lowell is passing south of the Islands at the moment, but is forecast to take a sharp turn to the north while remaining a hurricane:

Here are CPHC’s Key messages regarding Hurricane Lowell (en Español: Mensajes Claves). They advise monitoring and ominously add “This is a good
time for all residents to ensure they have their hurricane plan and
supply kit in place.” There’s a reason for that.

This track is reminiscent of the path and intensity taken by Hurricane Iniki, that hit Kauai in 1992 and was the strongest hurricane to hit the islands in modern history. It damaged or destroyed 70% of the homes on the island … let’s hope we don’t get a repeat of that. Will be watching closely the next few days, and if this scenario holds up people out there need to take it seriously.

Further west, Tropical Storm Krovanh is doing a weird loop over Okinawa, most likely to do a 360 and head up towards the main islands of Japan. It should remain relatively weak and may break up before then …

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