Hurricane Lane loses power as its heads toward Hawaii but still packs powerful winds
by David Montero, Los Angeles Times
Aug 25, 2018
4 minutes
HONOLULU - Hurricane Lane continued to lose power as it churned slowly toward the Hawaiian islands Friday, pouring rain on the Big Island while Oahu prepared and waited - still unsure what kind of impact the once-ominous storm would have.
Lane was downgraded to a Category 2 storm Friday, and National Weather Service meteorologist Gavin Shigesato said that by Sunday, it was likely to be a tropical storm.
"We do expect it to weaken slowly in the next 24 to 48 hours," he said. It's also moving very slowly, he said, barely topping 5 mph.
But the fallout from what Hurricane Lane had wrought was still playing out over the Big
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