{"id":494739,"date":"2026-02-28T01:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494739\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:53:23","slug":"high-surf-advisory-extended-for-east-facing-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494739\/","title":{"rendered":"High Surf Advisory Extended For East-Facing Shores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE \u2013 (9:30 a.m.) \u2013 The Hawai\u02bbi County Department of Parks &amp; Recreation reports all beach parks are open, with the exception of Onekahakaha and Coconut Island in Hilo.<\/p>\n<p>(BIVN) \u2013 The High Surf Advisory for east-facing shores of Hawai\u02bbi island has been extended until Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurf along exposed east-facing shores will remain elevated today due to a lingering north-northeast swell,\u201d wrote the National Weather Service on Thursday morning. \u201cThis, combined with fresh onshore trade winds, will continue to generate rough conditions along east-facing shores, prompting an extension of the advisory through today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA downward trend is expected Friday through the weekend as the swell eases and the trades diminish,\u201d the forecasters wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025-02-03-surf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025-02-03-surf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-101372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">graphic by BIVN<\/p>\n<p>Surf heights of 7 to 10 feet will be possible along certain windward shores of Kohala, H\u0101m\u0101kua, Hilo and Puna.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hilo beach parks were closed due to high surf impacts earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lingering swell will also \u201ccontinue to produce breaking waves at and near harbor entrances with surges in north facing harbors, mainly in Hilo and Kahului,\u201d the National Weather Service stated in a Marine Weather Statement. \u201cMariners using these harbors should exercise caution when entering or leaving these harbors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE \u2013 (9:30 a.m.) \u2013 The Hawai\u02bbi County Department of Parks &amp; Recreation reports all beach parks are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-494739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494739","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=494739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}