THE WAY KELLY WAS PREDICT.
GOOD MORNING, DAVID.
DAVID: GOOD MORNING, GUYS.
YEAH, THE RAINS STILL FALLING.
AS YOU HEARD KELLY TALKING ABOUT
NOW.
THE FIRST OFFICIAL TROPICAL
STORM LANDFALL ON THE ISLAND OF
MAUI, SINCE MODERN RECORD,
KEEPING BEGAN IN THE 1 90'S.
NOW THAT LOCATION, WHERE IT MADE
LANDFALL IS TEN MILES NORTHWEST
OF US RIGHT NOW.
ACCORDINGLY, WE'RE GETTING A
LIGHT SOUTHWEST WIND.
WHICH AS STORMS PLO, AND
COUNTERCLOCKWISE DIRECTION.
THAT DOES MEAN WE'RE ON THE BACK
SIDE OF THE STORM HERE.
NOW, WE'RE GETTING LIGHT WINDS
BECAUSE THE SOUTHWEST WINDS
GETTING INTERRUPTED BY MOUNTAINS
THAT DIRECTION OUR WAY.
BUT REALLY DRAMATIC.
LET ME STEP OUT OF THE WAY TO
SHOW YOU THE SCENE BEHIND US.
IT HAS BEEN DRAMATIC BECAUSE WE
HAVE PERIODS OF CLEAR SKIES
INTERRUPTED BY REALLY DARK
CLOUDS.
WE'RE LOOKING BACK OVER THE
SHOULDER TO THE AIRPORT.
HIGH SURF HERE IN THE HAR BOAR
BETWEEN ME AND THE AIRPORT.
BACKGROUND IL LOOM MATED BY
PERIODS OF CLEAR SKY, WHICH IS
NOT UNCOMMON SEE IN THE MIDDLE
OF A TROPICAL STORM EVEN ONE AS
RAGGED AS THIS ONE.
NOW OUT TO THE LEFT HERE, LET'S
PAN TO THE RAIN BANDS, YOU SAW
CLEARING HEAR THE MOUNTAINS.
CANNOT HELP BUT THINK THE RAIN
BANDS ARE STAYING OFFSHORE FROM
THE HARBOR HERE BECAUSE OF THE
RAIN SHADOW EFFECT OF THE MEANS.
THE MOUNTAINS THERE ON THE EAST
SIDE OF THE ISLAND OF MAUI
GETTING HAMMERED BY RAIN BUT IT
RAINS OUT AS IT FLOWS OUR WAY ON
THE LEEWARD SIDE.
THE RAIN BANDS OVER OVER THE
OPEN OCEAN.
THAT HE IS THE CENTER OF
TROPICAL STORM OLIVIA.
JUST A FEW MILES TO THE
LANDFALL AND THE RAIN BAND, OF
THE HEAVIEST OF THE STUFF, AT
LEAST, THEY HAVE BEEN TEASING US
HERE IN TOWN STAYING OFFSHORE
AND THEN AGAIN, THE HEAVIEST OF
THE RAIN, OF COURSE, OFFSHORE
NEAR THE CENTER AND THE
MOUNTAINOUS REGION ON THE
EASTERN SIDE OF THE ISLAND FROM
WHAT WE HAVE SEEN FAR.
SO AS THE RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL
HERE.
THE WINDS ARE STILL SHIFTING IN
TOWN AS THE CENTER MAKES
PROGRESS PAST US AND DOES LOOK
AND WE HAVE TO CONFIRM THIS IN
STUDIO WHERE WE HAVE A BETTER
LOOK OF ARE RADAR AM THE CENTER
OF THE STORM HAS MADE THE
CLOSEST PASS HERE TO TOWN THAT
IT WILL MAKE AS IT CONTINUES IN
THE WE'RE LIFE DIRECTION NOW
NORTHWEST OF WHERE WE STAND HERE
TODAY.
SO THE STORM, OF COURSE,
CERTAINLY NOT OVER.
OAHU NOW IN THE PATH AS IT
CONTINUES IN THE WESTERLY
DIRECTION.
REALLY IT HAS BEEN INTERESTING
DANCE TO WATCH THIS THING MOVE
AROUND THE MOUNTAINS.
MOVE FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE
ISLAND, TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE
ISLAND, HELP, I SUSPECT, IT MAY
SLEEVE FOR US IN THE NEXT 24
HOURS.
MEANTIME, DAVE OEMANS REPORTING
LIVE FOR KHON2 NEWS.
DAVID, I WANTED TO ASK YOU A
QUESTION IF YOU CAN HEAR ME IN
THE STUDIO.
DAVID.
SURE.
YOU HAVE BEEN TRAVELING
AROUND MAUI FOR HOURS NOW.
WE SAW YOU ON THE NORTH SIDE OF
MAUI.
YOU GOT POUNDED BY THE RAIN.
THE RAIN WAS WHIPPING NOW IT
LOOKS LIKE EVEN THOUGH THE
CENTER IS MAKING LANDFALL, IT
DOESN'T LOOK AS WILD AS IT DID
HOURS AND HOURS AGO WHEN YOU
WERE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE
VALLEY AISLE.
HOW DO YOU COMPARE EVERYTHING.
IT IS IT CALM COMPARED TO
EARLIER?
DAVID: SURE.
THAT IS A GREAT POINT.
IT IS COUNT KERR INTUITIVE.
WE ARE IN THE SAME SPOTS, GUYS,
ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE VALLEY
WHERE WE WERE OVERNIGHT.
WHERE WE WERE EARLY THIS MORNING
WHEN YOU SAW SIDEWAYS RAIN AND
39 MILES PER HOUR WIND GUST AT
THE AIRPORT RIGHT BEHIND US.
NOW, EVEN THOUGH THE CENTER OF
THE STORM IS NOW CLOSER THAN IT
WAS THIS THEN, THE SOUTH SIDE OF
THE STORM HAS BEEN VERY, VERY
RAGGED.
SO WE ACTUALLY GOT HEAVIER RAIN.
WE GOT HEAVIER WINDS WHEN THE
STORM WAS FURTHER AWAY WHEN WE
HAD SOME PERIPHERAL RAIN BANDS
COMING THROUGH THAN WE HAVE NOW.
NOW, I OF MY BEST ESTIMATE OF
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.
AS WE HAVE SEEN ON RADAR.
AS YOU HAVE SHOWN IN THE STUDIO
KELLY.
THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE STORM IS
GETTING DISRUPTED NOT ONLY BY
THE WIND SHEER BLOWING THE WORST
OF THE WEATHER TO THE NORTH OF
THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN REALLY
DISRUPTING THINGS IF YOU HAVE
THE FLE OVER THE NOONS TO THE
CENTER OF THE STORM WHICH IS
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE, IT
APPEARS, THE STORM THE
NORTHWEST.
THAT DISRUPTS THINGS.
IT PUTS US IN THE LITTLE RAIN
SHAD DRO THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS
HERE AND IT CERTAINLY HAS
CREATED A CONFUSING SCENE THAT
CENTER OF A TROPICAL STORM, A
FEW MILES BEHIND ME HERE, BUT WE
HAVE PERIODS OF CLEAR SKIES AND
SUNSHINE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DAVID.
VERY INTERESTING POINT BECAUSE
OLIVIA MADE LANDFALL BUT A
COUPLE OF HORSE AGO WHEN HE CAME
IN AT MIDNIGHT WE SAW HIM
GETTING PELTED WITH ARE IN AND
IMUSY WINDS.
THE FRONTAL BANDS THERE.
YOU THINK THE CENTER OF THE