SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015 | WEST HAWAII TODAY
WEATHER
8A
City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
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Weather(W): s-
sunny,
pc-
partly cloudy,
c-
cloudy,
sh-
showers,
t-
thunderstorms,
r-
rain,
sf-
snow flurries,
sn-
snow,
i-
ice.
TODAY’SWEATHER KONA TIDES TODAY SUN ANDMOON
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Shown is today’s weather.
Temperatures are today’s
highs and tonight’s lows.
NATIONAL CITIES TODAY
SATELLITE VIEW
First
Time
Height
Second
Time
Height
Hanalei
Kapaa
Waialua Laie
Lanai
Hana
Kapaau
Honokaa
Hilo
Naalehu
Captain Cook
Kailua-Kona
Mountain View
Kihei
Wailuku
Mokapu
Honolulu
Kaunakakai
Ewa Beach
Kalaheo
Kekaha
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and
precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
As of 3 p.m. yesterday.
Moon
Rise
Set
Sun
Rise
Set
Jun 16 Jun 24
Jul 1
Jul 8
New First
Full
Last
Albany, NY
81/59/pc
Albuquerque
85/61/t
Amarillo
78/61/t
Anchorage
68/55/s
Atlanta
90/73/pc
Austin
89/71/t
Baltimore
87/71/t
Billings
75/53/pc
Birmingham
90/72/pc
Bismarck
81/54/t
Boise
81/52/s
Boston
77/61/t
Buffalo
77/64/pc
Charleston, SC
94/74/pc
Charleston, WV
87/68/t
Charlotte, NC
94/71/pc
Cheyenne
76/53/t
Chicago
78/67/t
Cincinnati
84/70/t
Cleveland
76/67/c
Columbia, SC
96/73/pc
Dallas
90/72/t
Denver
83/57/t
Des Moines
78/68/t
Detroit
74/65/pc
Duluth
70/49/pc
El Paso
99/68/s
Fairbanks
68/48/pc
Fargo
84/61/pc
Grand Rapids
76/68/t
Green Bay
64/57/sh
Honolulu
86/73/pc
Houston
84/75/t
Indianapolis
86/70/t
Jackson, MS
88/73/t
Jacksonville
94/70/pc
Juneau
69/52/pc
Kansas City
78/67/t
Key West
87/79/t
Lansing
75/66/c
Las Vegas
102/80/pc
Little Rock
86/73/t
Los Angeles
77/63/pc
Louisville
86/74/t
Madison
76/64/t
Memphis
86/74/t
Miami
89/79/pc
Milwaukee
70/58/t
Minneapolis
72/62/pc
Nashville
87/71/pc
New Orleans
86/77/t
New York City
86/67/t
Norfolk
91/75/t
Oklahoma City
82/70/t
Omaha
78/66/t
Orlando
94/73/t
Philadelphia
90/70/t
Phoenix
104/81/s
Pittsburgh
79/68/t
Portland, ME
82/58/pc
Portland, OR
76/51/s
Providence
83/60/t
Raleigh
93/73/t
Reno
94/58/s
Sacramento
95/58/s
St. Louis
88/74/t
Salt Lake City
87/62/s
San Antonio
90/76/t
San Diego
71/65/pc
San Francisco
73/54/pc
San Juan, PR
89/79/pc
Santa Fe
79/53/t
Seattle
74/51/s
Spokane
73/48/pc
Syracuse
78/59/pc
Tampa
91/76/t
Tucson
100/69/s
Tulsa
82/73/t
Washington, DC
91/75/t
Wichita
80/68/t
Wichita Falls
87/70/t
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc.
©2015
High
12:41 a.m.
1.3’
Low
7:10 a.m.
-0.3’
High
2:21 p.m.
2.1’
Low
8:40 p.m.
0.4’
83/70
83/71
84/67
84/72
81/65
85/70
85/70
83/67
83/69
82/70
86/75
82/67
86/68
85/70
83/72
86/73
83/68
86/69
82/70
83/70
82/73
Today
5:45 a.m.
7:04 p.m.
Sunday
5:45 a.m.
7:04 p.m.
Today
3:28 a.m.
4:36 p.m.
Sunday
4:17 a.m.
5:34 p.m.
NATIONAL SUMMARY:
Warm and humid air will fuel drenching showers and thunder-
storms from the mid-Atlantic through the Ohio Valley today. Across the lower Mississippi
Valley, gulf moisture will help bring flooding downpours to Louisiana and eastern Texas.
Severe storms will erupt across the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma.
Tropical Storm Carlos forecast to reach hurricane strength
Tropical Storm Carlos is
forecast to continue gradually
strengthening and should be
upgraded to a hurricane over
the weekend, forecasters with
the National Hurricane Center
said Friday.
Carlos, the third named
storm of the 2015 Eastern
Pacific hurricane season, was
packing maximum sustained
winds around 60 mph, fore-
casters said at 5 p.m. Hawaii
time. The storm, which had
tropical storm force winds
extending outward up to 80
miles from its center, was
located about 145 miles south
of Acapulco, Mexico. It was
moving toward the northeast
at 2 mph.
The tropical cyclone is fore-
cast to gradually strength-
en during the next 72 hours.
Carlos is expected to peak later
this weekend or early next
week as a category 1 hurri-
cane packing 80 mph winds as
it moves parallel to the coast
of Mexico. Thereafter, cooler
waters and a more stable atmo-
sphere should cause the storm
to weaken.
A tropical storm watch
remained in effect Friday for an
area of the Mexico coast span-
ning from Acapulco to Punta
San Telmo, according to the cen-
ter, which noted heavy rain and
surf had already begun to impact
the coast. A tropical stormwatch
means tropical storm conditions
are possible within the area
during the next 48 hours.
Elsewhere in the Eastern
Pacific basin, no tropical
cyclones are expected to form
during the coming five days,
forecasters said.
In the Central North Pacific
basin, which is where Hawaii
is located, forecasters do not
expect any tropical cyclone
formation through Sunday
afternoon.
The Central North Pacific
and Eastern Pacific hurricane
seasons continue through Nov.
30.
Get more hurricane-related
content, including preparation
tips, evacuation info and daily
tropical weather updates, on
our hurricane season page,
sponsored by Clark Realty,
at
westhawaiitoday.com/
hurricane-season-2015.
WEST HAWAII TODAY
NOAA’s GOES-West satellite captured this visible image of
Tropical Storm Carlos off the coast of southwestern Mexico
Friday morning.
NASA/NOAA GOES PROJECT
ABDUCTED BY ALIENS?
NEUROLOGIST FINDS SIMILARITIES IN ALLEGED VICTIMS
Neurologist Dr. Michael
B. Russo says that he ini-
tially didn’t know what
to make of the first few
patients who told him
they’d been abducted by
aliens from outer space.
“Their
doctors
sent them
to
me
because
they had
headache
pain
or
some sort
of neuro-
logical problem,” he said.
“Their primary physicians
didn’t know they were
having the problem due
to abduction. But I would
find out as part of my
interview when I would
ask how long they’ve had
the problem, when did
they first notice it. … Then
they’d tell me.”
As part of his regular test-
ing of patients, Russo used
his $200,000 Dense-Array
Electroencephalography, or
DEEG, machine — the only
of its kind in Hawaii — to
map the electrical activity
in the brains of his patients.
New patients, includ-
ing several from the Big
Island, came in with simi-
lar complaints about being
abducted, leading Russo to
wonder if there was any-
thing the patients shared
in common when it came
to brain wave activity.
“The patients were
just coming to me, and I
started noticing patterns
across the patients. I’ll see
three or four patients with
something that’s similar,
and then I’ll try to find an
explanation for what it is
I’m seeing,” Russo said.
Each of the patients
who claims to have been
abducted by aliens and
believed that a transmit-
ter was implanted in their
brain has shown abnor-
malities in brain wave
activity in their parietal
lobe.
“That’s the area that
does visual and auditory
integration into higher
order thinking,” he said.
“The parietal areas pro-
cess visual and auditory
data, but they can intrin-
sically create it themselves
and then send it to the
pre-frontal region, where
you become aware of it. …
Our thinking is that there’s
something in the parietal
areas that’s generating (the
feeling that transmission
from aliens are being sent
to the brain).”
The electrical brain
wave activity of the alien
abductee patients looks
similar to that of patients
who have experienced
traumatic brain injury, he
said.
Russo, who operates
offices in both Honolulu
and Hilo, says that he tries
to look at the patients’
experiences from their
point of view and works
with them to try to help
alleviate their problem.
“I’m not casting judg-
ment about what it is
they’re saying and their
history,” he said Friday.
“All I’m saying is that these
areas of the brain are sim-
ilar between patients. …
Patients would not come
to me if I did not take
them seriously and their
problems seriously. I don’t
discount what they’ve said.
I try to make the pain or
discomfort or anxieties
diminish.”
Russo said that when he
is performing the DEEG
tests, patients will often
ask him if he can see the
transmitter.
“‘No, I can’t see the
transmitter,’ I’ll tell them.
‘But I can see the brain
signals,” he said.
Russo said that so far,
when he has explained his
findings to his patients,
they have responded well.
“It
validates
what
they’re experiencing. It’s
something that can be
detected or measured
using human equipment
— most of what they’ve
had is an extraterrestrial
experience. So, I’m able
to say, ‘Yes, I can see your
brain and the area where
there are communication
difficulties,’” he said. “‘And
I have medicines that may
help the pain you’re expe-
riencing or turn down
or off the transmissions
you’re experiencing.’”
Russo says he has expe-
rienced some success using
various pharmacological
therapies in alleviating the
headache pains and feel-
ings of receiving unwanted
transmissions.
Russo will present his
findings, which were
co-authored with Ryan
Nillo, Shane Endicott,
Judith
Profant
and
Melba C. Stetz, at the
upcoming meeting of
the
Organization
of
Human Brain Mapping,
held Sunday through
Thursday at the Honolulu
Convention Center.
Email Colin M. Stewart at cstewart@
hawaiitribune-herald.com.
BY COLIN M. STEWART
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
This public domain rendering by artist Travis Walton depicts an alien spacecraft abducting a human victim.
Russo
