OT-Even in Hawai'i......LOL! - Page 1

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
342 PM HST WED JAN 12 2011

...DANGEROUS WINTER STORM CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR THE SUMMITS OF
MAUNA KEA AND MAUNA LOA TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...

.DEEP MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WILL BRING
HEAVY SNOW SHOWERS TO THE SUMMITS ABOVE 11000 FEET. STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS WILL RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING
SNOW...CREATING WHITEOUT CONDITIONS.

HIZ028-131445-
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BIG ISLAND SUMMITS-
INCLUDING...MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA ABOVE 8000 FEET
342 PM HST WED JAN 12 2011

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST
THURSDAY...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THURSDAY.

NEW SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 10 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY LATE
THURSDAY OVER THE BIG ISLAND SUMMITS ABOVE 11000 FEET. STRONG
SOUTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO 50 MPH WILL RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AT THE SUMMITS. HEAVIER SNOW SHOWERS
COULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HIKERS AND CAMPERS SHOULD STRONGLY CONSIDER POSTPONING ANY TRIPS
TO THE SUMMIT UNTIL AFTER THE INCLEMENT WEATHER PASSES.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW...
SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

My kids & I lived on the Big Island of Hawai'i for almost a year. When it would snow on Mauna Kea the locals would drive their pickup trucks up the mountain, fill the beds with snow, & rush back down to Hilo, & by that afternoon there would be dozens of little melting snowmen in peoples yards.......so wonderfully charming to see snowmen under palm trees! jackie harris

they had the roads shut down when i was there for a month in 08 for 2.5 inches in the mountains of the big island