Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
With Hurricane Lala scraping past South Point on the Big Island and exhibiting all kinds of interesting behaviour, we now have another real world piece in the puzzle of the incredible interaction between the huge Big Island mountains and nearby hurricanes. We’ll look at the fascinating behaviour of Lala during it’s approach and passage and compare that with test simulations conducted a long time ago that looked at how different the storms could have been if the island mountains did not exist.
Presentation to NWS is here: youtu.be/JEwzn0S3cq0
Paper is here: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/139/11/mwr-d-11-00031.1.xml
Dissertation here: researchgate.net/publication/241398782_Effect_of_mesoscale_orography_on_tropical_cyclones_near_Hawai'i's_Big_Island_and_in_the_South_China_Sea
With Hurricane Lala scraping past South Point on the Big Island and exhibiting all kinds of interesting behaviour, we now have another real world piece in the puzzle of the incredible interaction between the huge Big Island mountains and nearby hurricanes. We’ll look at the fascinating behaviour of Lala during it’s approach and passage and compare that with test simulations conducted a long time ago that looked at how different the storms could have been if the island mountains did not exist.
Presentation to NWS is here: youtu.be/JEwzn0S3cq0
Paper is here: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/139/11/mwr-d-11-00031.1.xml
Dissertation here: researchgate.net/publication/241398782_Effect_of_mesoscale_orography_on_tropical_cyclones_near_Hawai'i's_Big_Island_and_in_the_South_China_Sea
