Tuesday, 28 July 2020_Hurricane Douglas bore down on Hawaii on Sunday (July 26) packing torrential rains and damaging winds as it churned just east of the islands in the central Pacific, forecasters said, with one local leader urging residents to be prepared for the worst.
Hurricane Douglas was widely advertised as having the potential to become only the third landfalling hurricane on record in Hawaii, but Douglas apparently had other plans.
In a move few predicted, Douglas largely skirted the archipelago, curving north as if to avoid an obstacle. While wind, rain and high surf still accompanied Douglas’s passage, the island of Kauai — which experienced the closest shave — still missed landfall by about 40 miles.
For many, it was close. Very close.
“I’d say they’re breathing a sigh of relief,” said Chevy Chevalier, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. “Fifty miles is nothing when you’re talking about the entire Pacific.”
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