Update at 3:18 a.m. March 22, 2026: The flood advisory issued late Saturday night, March 21, for portions of the Big Island was extended and expanded as heavy showers lift north to cover the island.<\/p>\n
The advisory is now in effect until 5:15 a.m. Sunday, March 22, and encompasses the entire Big Island.<\/p>\n
National Weather Service radar indicated at 1:52 a.m. heavy showers around the island, with rain falling at 1 to 2 inches an hour. The heaviest rainfall is located over the southwest and southeast slopes of Mauna Loa.<\/p>\n
Flooding of roads, poor drainage areas and streams because of excessive rainfall is expected.<\/p>\n
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The public is again advised to stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low-lying areas prone to flooding.<\/p>\n
Story originally posted at 1:16 a.m. Sunday, March 22, 2026: A flood advisory is in effect for portions of the Big Island until 2:15 a.m. Sunday, March 22, because of flooding on roads and in poor drainage areas and streams expected cause by excessive rainfall.<\/p>\n
National Weather Service radar indicated at 11:18 p.m. Saturday, March 21, that heavy rain was falling at 1 to 2 inches an hour over the southeast slopes of the Big Island, from Volcano to N\u0101\u02bb\u0101lehu. Additional rainfall is also expected to move in over leeward Big Island from the west.<\/p>\n
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Some locations that will experience flooding include Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Captain Cook, Waik\u014dloa, Kapa\u02bbau, Honoka\u02bba, P\u014dhakuloa Training Area, P\u014dhakuloa Camp, Volcano, Wood Valley, Glenwood, H\u014dnaunau, Hawai\u02bbi Volcanoes National Park, Honalo, Mountain View, K\u0101\u02bbin\u0101liu, Kealakekua and Pu\u02bbu Anahulu.<\/p>\n
The public is advised to stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low-lying areas prone to flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update at 3:18 a.m. March 22, 2026: The flood advisory issued late Saturday night, March 21, for portions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5375,5376,197732,192,129895,241368,47380,73157,189229,217076,24974,241369,241370,189231,241371,69755,184257,44436,16124,24030,241372,241373,241374,241375,241376,79,241377,241378,63145,191896,189238],"class_list":["post-538985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-big-island-news","tag-big-island-now","tag-captain-cook","tag-environment","tag-flood-advisory","tag-flooding-likely","tag-glenwood","tag-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park","tag-hawaiian-paradise-park","tag-heavy-rainfall","tag-hilo","tag-honalo","tag-honaunau","tag-honokaa","tag-kainaliu","tag-kailua-kona","tag-kapaau","tag-kealakekua","tag-mountain-view","tag-national-weather-service","tag-pohakuloa-camp","tag-pohakuloa-training-area","tag-puu-anahulu","tag-radar-indicated","tag-rain-falling-at-1-to-2-inches-per-hour","tag-science","tag-some-leeward-locations","tag-southeast-slopes-of-big-island","tag-volcano","tag-waikoloa","tag-wood-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538985","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=538985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}