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More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii

posted by on Sunday December 04 2016, @01:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-the-weather-outside-is-frightful dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for chromas

A perfectly normal weather event is occurring in Hawaii today.

The summits of Hawaii's Big Island could get more than two feet of snow, with a winter storm warning in effect through Saturday.

A Winter Storm Warning is in effect through Saturday evening for elevations above 11,000 feet. The summits could get 20 to 30 inches of snow through Saturday, CBS affiliate KGMB.

An upper level low pressure area has brought the sub-freezing temperatures and unstable conditions. The low will combine with moisture surging in from the southeast, which could result in bursts of heavy snow, especially above 12,000 feet.

Conditions on the summits are dangerous. Besides being cold, east to southeast winds of 10 to 20 miles per hour are expected with higher gusts. The strong winds also will cause drifting snow, and freezing fog will reduce visibility to as low as a quarter of a mile.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @01:58PM (#436876)

    What a non-story.
    The summit spends more time with snow than without.
    2 feet is more than it typically gets at any one time, but "a bigger snow storm than usual" barely rises to the level of something the local news would report.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @06:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @06:53PM (#436951)

    FTFY