{"id":674206,"date":"2026-03-22T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674206\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:29:13","slug":"update-entire-big-island-now-under-flood-advisory-as-heavy-showers-continue-to-lift-north-big-island-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674206\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Entire Big Island now under flood advisory as heavy showers continue to lift north : Big Island Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update at 3:18 a.m. March 22, 2026: <\/strong>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:<\/strong> 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

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/b><\/p>\n

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":3,"featured_media":674207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[14887,14888,232457,746,183396,284308,119917,100732,222716,206754,57010,284309,284310,222718,284311,98382,216851,284312,44001,6231,284313,284314,284315,284316,284317,159,284318,284319,67,132,68,3093,284320,222727],"class_list":["post-674206","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-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-volcano","tag-waikoloa","tag-wood-valley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}