Hurricane Lane is going to get uncomfortably close to us, by all accounts.

Here are my go-to sources of information.

The Central Pacific Hurricane Center posts updated forecasts every six hours: 5 a.m., 11 a.m., 5 p.m., and 11 p.m., Hawaiian Standard Time. Click on the link for Hurricane Lane (or whatever the current central Pacific storm might be), and see your choices.

It offers lots of information, including maps of the storm’s course and winds over the next 3-5 days, with some animated options.

I also find the “wind speed probabilities” info very useful. So far, it is showing Honolulu with just a cumulative 4% chance of experiencing hurricane force winds between now and Monday. I am sure hoping this proves to be accurate!

The other source I’ve found very useful is windy.com. This site animates the weather data from one of three different predictive models over time.

I can enter our location (“Kealaolu Avenue, Honolulu County”), select wind or rain, then click the “play” button down on the lower left to watch the forecast for the next several days in animated form. Choose a different forecast model and the results can look quite different.

In an abundance of caution, we’ll be bringing our deck furniture inside, along with other potential wind-borne projectiles. I’ve been charging all of our emergency lights, laptops, camera batteries, and phone backup batteries, just in case. We have human and cat food. I’ve got a large container for fresh water, which I’ll fill if it starts looking bad.

Schools and government offices on Hawaii, Maui, Molokai and Lanai will be closed beginning today. The Elks Lodge and Club on Waikiki Beach will close at noon today and will stay closed until further notice.

So I guess it’s time for me to start getting ready.