{"id":745812,"date":"2026-08-22T04:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:42:12","slug":"tropical-storm-moke-develops-expected-to-bring-flooding-rains-to-hawaiis-big-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745812\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Moke develops, expected to bring flooding rains to Hawaii’s Big Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new storm is forecast to bring flooding rain and potential mudslides to Hawaii’s Big Island as residents there still recover from last week’s Hurricane Lala.<\/a><\/p>\n

The system strengthened into Tropical Storm Moke on Friday, with 45 mph winds.<\/p>\n

Lala spins out to sea after storm hammered the Hawaiian Islands<\/a><\/p>\n

Moke\u00a0should remain\u00a0weaker than Hurricane Lala. It will\u00a0move south of\u00a0Hawaii’s Big Island,\u00a0with rain overspreading the area\u00a0on Saturday night, and then hammer the island on Sunday and into Monday.<\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

ABC News – PHOTO: Tropical Storm Moke.<\/p>\n

The storm is expected to produce rainfall totals of 5 to 10 inches, with maximum amounts of 15 inches across the Big Island. That rain could bring life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in steep terrain and in areas that were impacted by Lala.<\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

ABC News – PHOTO: Hawaii Flood Threat Map<\/p>\n

Rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches with maximum amounts of 5 inches are expected across the remainder of the Hawaiian Islands this weekend and early next week. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kevin<\/p>\n

Kevin Fujii\/AP – PHOTO: Tropical Storm Lala’s rain floods Kapiolani Boulevard in front of the Hawaii Convention Center, Aug. 16, 2026, in Honolulu.<\/p>\n

Lala\u00a0moved south of\u00a0<\/a>the Big Island on Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane,\u00a0<\/a>damaging or destroying more than 100 homes\u00a0and cutting off some communities,\u00a0according to the governor. The storm dumped more than a foot of rain over parts of the state, with the\u00a0highest elevations\u00a0getting more than 40 inches. Thousands on the Big Island are still without power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new storm is forecast to bring flooding rain and potential mudslides to Hawaii’s Big Island as residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,9349,246426,246427,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-convention-center","tag-rainfall-totals","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}