3 Tropical Storms to Affect Hawaii This Week

we've enjoyed a nice recent break from tropical activity in the Atlantic but as ACU weather's lead hurricane expert Alex D Silva explains activity is about to ramp back up yeah I think we're going to be seeing big changes in the Atlantic coming at the end of August uh starting probably around August 27th I think one of the big factors that's been kind of inhibiting tropical development at least for most of the month of August is going to start to go away and that is the African dust that's the hair and dry air that's been coming across the Atlantic and kind of choking off these tropical waves Thinking by the end of August I think a lot of that dust will start to wne and so as we approach the peak of the hurricane season which is September 10th we're going to start to see a lot more of these robust waves coming off of the coast of Africa and without that dry air or at least less of it I think they're going to have a better shot of developing all right while the Atlantic has been quiet the Pacific has been active uh h brought heavy flooding rain and Gusty winds to Hawaii some of that flooding uh was was pretty nasty out there and we've been dealing with again a lot of concerns about uh flooding there especially for the big island earlier this weekend the rain has been exiting and it's been pulling away to the West here thankfully so we're getting a bit of a break there we have a radar view some of this is supplemented by satellite data for the area around the west side of Hawaii and you can see uh again where the the heaviest rain and the flooding had been it was mainly over the the big island we had some rain off to the north but overall rain tied to H is exiting and we're in better shape there at least in the short term but uh we want to jump to the Atlantic here because a lot of us are very interested in how the next month is going to progress especially with the Southeast coast the Carolina coast Texas coast in mind here and in between Louisiana as well we've had five name storm so far and we're a little we're right right around average really we typically would see our fifth name storm form on August 22nd that was 4 days ago uh so we're not ahead or behind the average for the number of storms that we've seen we did see a lot of uh of energy uh with Debbie Debbie was an unusually strong storm for a long period of time this early in the season typically our third hurricane forms at least the average statistic lands on September 7th and the first major hurricane would land on September 1st we've already had three hurricanes and one major hurricane so we're marginally ahead of average there for those metrics we're going to keep our eye out for a series of tropical waves I'm kind of drawing the troughs here on the map across the Eastern Atlantic things are getting more active we have a lot of dry air though a lot of dry air in the short term and even arguably into places off to the West near the Turks and C Coast so we're not expecting anything too soon in the Atlantic but we will be looking for one of those tropical waves to enter this area here this coming weekend Saturday Sunday Monday a week from now we have a low chance again a low chance of development here off to the east of the Caribbean so again that's the next thing that we'll be watching in the Atlantic Basin but as we do take you back into the Pacific just because again this has been uh an area where there's been more activity even though it's a little bit lower impact moving away from Hawaii H is moving away and that's not going to bring any additional significant impacts although there are still some big waves that we've inherited from the past few days from that near Miss where at least you can call it a direct hit at least even though we didn't see landfall because the rain really intensified and look at that waterfall in Hilo elsewhere to the east of Hawaii here is Gilma Gilma is a hurricane and this is going to continue to move west Gilma is a category 2 hurricane now but look at this we're going to go back down to a tropical storm by 8: a.m. Wednesday tropical depression as it passes actually north of Hawaii this weekend remember H passed to the South but overall G is going to be passing to the north as a weaker storm and beyond that we have Hector on the map too so a lot of action Hector is a tropical storm and will remain a tropical storm this will take a path kind of halfway between where hone and Gilma will be moving uh but also similar to Gilma we're looking at this weakening to a tropical depression then a tropical rainstorm losing its wind energy before it makes that close push into Hawaii [Music]