{"id":30060,"date":"2025-07-23T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30060\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:31:07","slug":"coastal-flooding-expected-during-afternoons-on-maui-big-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30060\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal flooding expected during afternoons on Maui, Big Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <img width=\"464\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web1_072225-WEB-Hawaiian-Islands.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid h-100 w-100\" alt=\"COURTESY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE&#10;                                The radar shows minor coastal flooding is expected along coastlines of Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii island during peak high tide each afternoon.\" style=\"max-height:600px;object-fit:contain;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>COURTESY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE<\/p>\n<p>The radar shows minor coastal flooding is expected along coastlines of Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii island during peak high tide each afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flooding statement for Maui County and Hawaii island during afternoon high tides, effective through Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Minor coastal flooding is expected along coastlines of Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii island during peak high tide each afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeak monthly high tides combined with water levels that are running higher than predicted will lead to minor flooding along the shoreline and in low-lying coastal areas of Maui County and the Big island,\u201d said NWS in the statement. \u201cCoastal flooding is expected during the daily peak high tide each afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weather officials warn of the potential flooding of beaches that are normally dry, minor coastal erosion, and saltwater inundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvoid driving through flooded roadways,\u201d said NWS. \u201cIf you are forced to drive through salt water, be sure to rinse your vehicle with fresh water. Move electronics, vehicles or other valuables to higher ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the public should secure canoes or other watercraft stowed on beaches.<\/p>\n<p>                        Don&#8217;t miss out on what&#8217;s happening!<\/p>\n<p class=\"email-form-blurb m-0\">Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It&#8217;s FREE!<\/p>\n<p>A small craft advisory is also in effect for all coastal waters and channels east of Oahu, except windward Hawaii island waters, through 6 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COURTESY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE The radar shows minor coastal flooding is expected along coastlines of Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,25390,25391,79,2986],"class_list":{"0":"post-30060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-hawaii-island","10":"tag-maui","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}