But this weekend we have seen some very rare weather phenomena.
Believe it or not, two more roofs were blown off today on Oahu due to what witnesses are calling a twister that ripped through their neighborhood.
And on Hawaii island, the summits experienced temperatures below zero!
This morning, there was a roof on this carport.
And a few houses down, this roof was completely in tact.
That’s before neighbors say a dust storm whipped through this Pearl City neighborhood.
"Tornado or something that’s what I thought it was. I looked up in my window and debris is flying in the air and went down the road," said Bob Gusman, a Pearl City resident.
When he went outside he couldn’t believe what had just happened.
"I went and saw the whole roof came off, all the debris came down the road, landed in several neighbors yard. I saw one piece land this way. What they saw come back up was this neighbors roof come off too," describes Gusman.
Sound familiar? That’s because yesterday a similar occurance happened in Iwilei this one caught on surveillance video first seen on KHON 2 where a small twister formed and ripped off a part of City Mill’s roof.
A rare phenomena that meteorologists at the National Weather Service even say is extremely isolated and formed when the right conditions come at the right time or at the wrong times for this matter.
"What happens is you can get winds flowing down here through the center of the islands, and the sea breezes are coming up..so when you get the combination you get a little spin. And that spin happened to be right over where there were reported dust devils today," points out Derek Wroe, National Weather Service.
But the Hawaii Island summits stood up against the strongest winds this weekend.
"We’ve had some very strong winds coming over the summits the last couple of days. Those winds have been over 100 miles per hour at times," says Wroe.
Hurricane force winds combined with icy temperatures.
"It was a really dangerous place to be, you would not want to be up there but luckily they closed the road down so no ones going up there," says Wroe.
Very rare weather conditions in our tropical paradise that is definitely turning some heads.
"First time we had this kind of excitement in the neighborhood," exclaims Gusman.
The weather service says the next couple of days should be quiet.
See the original article at: KHON2 Local News
