{"id":573341,"date":"2026-04-09T06:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:35:13","slug":"more-rain-on-the-way-to-hawaii-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573341\/","title":{"rendered":"More rain on the way to Hawaii \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another storm is fast approaching the Hawaiian Islands, potentially bringing more flooding. <\/p>\n

Three weeks after experiencing heavy floods, the islands are under a flood watch from the National Weather Service<\/a> until Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n

By Saturday, forecasters say conditions should ease up. <\/p>\n

Several inches of rain have already hit Maui and the Big Island in the past 24 hours, with the east side of the Big Island receiving the most precipitation, according to the Weather Channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Weather Channel anticipates Kauai and the Big Island could receive up to 8 inches of rain by the end of the week. <\/p>\n

Kona lows caused flooding in March\"\"This photo provided by Maui County shows flooding from days of downpours in Hana, Hawaii, on Friday, March 13, 2026. | Maui County via Associated Press <\/p>\n

Last month, widespread flooding<\/a> forced evacuations, with damages estimated up to $1 billion. That appears to be the big worry this time around as well.<\/p>\n

The pair of storms \u2014 named Kona lows \u2014 caused significant damage, flooding homes, damage roads and other infrastructure and moving mud and water across the landscape, according to Fox Weather. <\/a><\/p>\n

The worry for flooding remains high as the new storm approaches, with many communities on the north shore of Oahu in the storm\u2019s path. Residents were encouraged then to shelter on their roof to stay out of floodwaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to previous Deseret News<\/a> reporting, a Kona low is a winter phenomenon that follows a series of planetary waves moving around the globe. The systems are present most years, but don\u2019t always hit Hawaii.<\/p>\n

According to media reports, Gov. Josh Green called the first storms and flood the worst in 20 years and estimated that the storms could potentially cost up to $1 billion in damages.<\/p>\n

Kahului, Maui, recorded its wettest month in over 110 years in March, with 21.11 inches of rain, per Fox Weather<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another storm is fast approaching the Hawaiian Islands, potentially bringing more flooding. Three weeks after experiencing heavy floods,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,149,6632,79,33066,2427,12848],"class_list":{"0":"post-573341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-lifestyle","10":"tag-outdoors","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-the-west","13":"tag-travel","14":"tag-u-s-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573341","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=573341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}