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    "parsed_content": "Hurricane SeasonliveHurricane Polo UpdatesHurricane Nolo UpdatesAtlantic ForecastWeather Service CutsDisaster AidA.I. ForecastsAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTNolo, Now a Hurricane, Gets Stronger and Takes Aim at HawaiiThough likely to avoid a direct hit, parts of the state could receive nearly three feet of rain, forecasters warned.Listen \u00b7 6:27 min Share full article\n \n \n \n Current time in Honolulu: 6:29 a.m. on Friday 5-day chance of tropical-storm-forcedamaginghurricane-force winds 20 40 60 80 % Major hurricane Hurricane Trop. storm Use Ctrl + scroll to zoom the mapUse two fingers to move the map100\u00a0mi Use Ctrl + scroll to zoom the mapUse two fingers to move the map Note: All times are Hawaii time. Data as of 4:55 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 25. William B. Davis and John Keefe\/The New York Times Hurricane Nolo Takes Aim at Hawaii - The New York Times\n \n By Amy Graff and Judson JonesAmy Graff is a reporter on The Times\u2019s weather team. Judson Jones is a reporter and meteorologist on the weather team.Published Sept. 24, 2026Updated Sept. 25, 2026, 10:38 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google \n \n \n \n Hurricane Nolo as of 5 a.m. Hawaii time \u203a Category 1 Wind speed 85\nm.p.h. Max. sustained Location SSE\nof\nHonolulu 397 miles away Direction NNE at 5 m.p.h. Hurricane Nolo Takes Aim at Hawaii - The New York Times\n \n Hurricane Nolo spun toward Hawaii Friday, threatening to intensify into a major hurricane. It was forecast to bring strong winds and extreme rainfall, along with severe flooding, to a state still recovering from two other hurricanes that brushed it in the last few weeks.A series of watches and warnings were issued on Thursday for the Big Island, Maui, Lanai and Molokai. Rain and wind arrived on the Big Island Friday, and were predicted to gradually spread over the weekend to the islands to the west.Nolo is predicted to travel north toward the Big Island Friday. Its forward pace is then forecast to come to a crawl Saturday morning before swinging west later that day.Early on Friday, the forecast indicated that the eye of the storm would come close but still remain south of the Big Island\u2019s southeast coast, though that could still change.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cThis storm is going to be impactful with winds, rain and surf regardless of how close it gets,\u201d said Matt Foster, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Honolulu. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be close enough where there will be impacts.\u201d\n \n \n \n What does the storm look like from above? Use Ctrl + scroll to zoom the mapUse two fingers to move the map100\u00a0mi Note: Data as of Thursday, Sept. 24 at 4:20 p.m. Hawaii time. William B. Davis\/The New York Times \n \n Hawaii has faced numerous weather disasters this year, including devastating flooding in March. Just two weeks ago, Hurricane Lowell lashed Kauai with heavy rain and wind, battering the island\u2019s north and south shores. Lowell knocked out power to most of Kauai, but as of Wednesday, 98 percent of the island\u2019s electricity was restored.Hurricane Lala narrowly missed the Big Island in August, but its outer bands tore through the island\u2019s valleys and knocked its mountains with winds and rain that flooded homes, closed roads and knocked out power. The governor estimated more than $1 billion in current and future disaster-related costs.State Representative Jeann\u00e9 Kapela, whose district includes Big Island communities hit hard by Lala, said on Thursday that the next hurricane was coming while some people remain without electricity and homes were destroyed.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cHurricane Lala was awful and it is an incredibly long road to recovery for our entire community,\u201d she said in an interview. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had time to recover and now we\u2019re being hit with a potential Category 3.\u201dOfficials said schools and county offices would be closed across the island on Thursday and Friday.During Lala, many places recorded almost an entire month\u2019s worth of rain in just a day or two, leading to flooding and mudflows that destroyed communities. The highest totals exceeded three feet, falling mostly within a space of 15 hours. Nolo could produce similar effects across some of the same regions.On the Big Island, Weng Aquino Branch was nervous about living through another hurricane so soon after the roof of her home in Ocean View peeled away during Lala last month. Ms. Aquino Branch and her partner were staying with a friend in Keauhou, more than an hour\u2019s drive north from Ocean View, which is on the southern end of the island.\u201cOur house is unlivable,\u201d she said Thursday. \u201cWhatever\u2019s inside is ruined,\u201d she said, \u201cand then with the new hurricane coming, it might just finish the rest.\u201d The couple also have a coffee farm in Pahala, where boulders tumbled from the mountainside during Lala and knocked down a couple of hundred coffee trees. Cities like Hilo, Hawaii, have already received their average rainfall for the year, with two months still to go. With more rain on the way, 2026 is on pace to be one of the rainiest years on record.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTNolo is expected to bring 15 to 30 inches of rain to locations across the Big Island, and even up to 35 inches in some locations. That amount could lead to catastrophic, life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in areas of steep terrain, forecasters with the National Weather Service said. The drier side of the Big Island will also get rain: anywhere from five to 10 inches. While the region\u2019s lava rock and soil are porous, recent rain means it will not take much more to saturate the ground, said Stephen Parker, a meteorologist with the Weather Service office in Honolulu.\u201cOnce the ground becomes wet and saturated, which it will do early in this system, any heavy rain is going to immediately run off,\u201d Mr. Parker said. \u201cAnd the slope of the terrain is pretty sharp in places. So it starts coming downhill at a decent clip. It does a lot of damage that way, as everybody saw with Lala.\u201dForecasters also anticipate rainfall totals of four to eight inches across Maui, with maximum amounts of 15 inches in some isolated locations, and one to six inches on the other islands.At a news conference on Wednesday morning at the State Capitol in Honolulu, Gov. Josh Green urged residents on the southern tip of the Big Island, much of which is still recovering from Lala, to take advantage of hotel rooms provided by the state if they wanted to evacuate.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cIf you feel unsafe right now, please take us up on the offer to go up to Hilo as this new storm approaches,\u201d Mr. Green said of the hotel rooms available in the east side of the island\u2019s main town.There is a lot of uncertainty about Nolo, John Bravender, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu, said at the news conference. But given the possible drenching rains and more, he told residents, \u201cYou need to take action now.\u201dAt the news conference, Joe Campos, a top official with the state\u2019s Human Services Department, quipped to Mr. Bravender of the Weather Service: \u201cPlease tell Mother Nature to leave us alone for a while.\u201dAcross the Central and Eastern Pacific, the hurricane season has been incredibly busy. Much of the increased activity, including the rapid intensification of Hurricane Polo near Mexico, is because of the current strength of El Ni\u00f1o, the movement of extremely warm ocean temperatures east in the Pacific that affects weather patterns worldwide.Jennifer Sinco Kelleher contributed reporting from Honolulu.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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