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  1. Here's what to know as the scope of damage from #Hawaii's #floods becomes clearer

    By AUDREY McAVOY and GENE JOHNSON
    March 23, 2026 at 3:18 pm PDT

    HONOLULU โ€” "The worst #flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud.

    "Crews continued to assess the destruction Monday, but authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged, along with some schools and a hospital.

    "No deaths have been reported, but more than 230 people had to be rescued. Rain continued to the southeastern part of the state and a section of the #BigIsland was under a #FlashFlood warning.

    "Gov. Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, homes and a Maui hospital in Kula. He called it the stateโ€™s most serious since flooding since 2004, when floods in Manoa inundated homes and a University of Hawaii library.

    "On Oahu's North Shore, famed for big wave surfing, the waters rose quickly after midnight Friday as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier. Raging waters lifted homes and cars. The storm prompted evaluation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu โ€” though they were later lifted โ€” and more than 230 people were rescued from the rising waters.

    "Some residents fled on surfboards as water reached waist or chest high.

    "Farms around the state reported more than $9.4 million worth of damage as of Monday, according to a survey conducted by Agriculture Stewardship Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other organizations. Oahu farmers reported more than $2.7 million in crop damage.
    Winter storm systems brought severe deluges

    "Officials blamed some of the devastation on the sheer amount of rain that fell in a short amount of time.

    "Parts of Oahu received 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters), the National Weather Service said. That was on top of another recent storm that had dumped vast amounts days earlier. Kaala, the islandโ€™s highest peak, got nearly 16 inches (40 centimeters) late last week, on top of 26.6 inches (67.6 centimeters) between March 10 and 16.

    "Winter storm systems known as '#Kona lows,' which feature southerly or southwesterly winds that bring in moisture-laden air, have been responsible for the deluges in the past two weeks. The intensity and frequency of heavy rains in Hawaii have increased amid human-caused #GlobalWarming, experts say.

    "The worst of the storms appeared to be over by Sunday afternoon."

    Read more:
    kiro7.com/news/heres-what-know

    #KonaStorm #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

  2. Here's what to know as the scope of damage from #Hawaii's #floods becomes clearer

    By AUDREY McAVOY and GENE JOHNSON
    March 23, 2026 at 3:18 pm PDT

    HONOLULU โ€” "The worst #flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud.

    "Crews continued to assess the destruction Monday, but authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged, along with some schools and a hospital.

    "No deaths have been reported, but more than 230 people had to be rescued. Rain continued to the southeastern part of the state and a section of the #BigIsland was under a #FlashFlood warning.

    "Gov. Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, homes and a Maui hospital in Kula. He called it the stateโ€™s most serious since flooding since 2004, when floods in Manoa inundated homes and a University of Hawaii library.

    "On Oahu's North Shore, famed for big wave surfing, the waters rose quickly after midnight Friday as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier. Raging waters lifted homes and cars. The storm prompted evaluation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu โ€” though they were later lifted โ€” and more than 230 people were rescued from the rising waters.

    "Some residents fled on surfboards as water reached waist or chest high.

    "Farms around the state reported more than $9.4 million worth of damage as of Monday, according to a survey conducted by Agriculture Stewardship Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other organizations. Oahu farmers reported more than $2.7 million in crop damage.
    Winter storm systems brought severe deluges

    "Officials blamed some of the devastation on the sheer amount of rain that fell in a short amount of time.

    "Parts of Oahu received 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters), the National Weather Service said. That was on top of another recent storm that had dumped vast amounts days earlier. Kaala, the islandโ€™s highest peak, got nearly 16 inches (40 centimeters) late last week, on top of 26.6 inches (67.6 centimeters) between March 10 and 16.

    "Winter storm systems known as '#Kona lows,' which feature southerly or southwesterly winds that bring in moisture-laden air, have been responsible for the deluges in the past two weeks. The intensity and frequency of heavy rains in Hawaii have increased amid human-caused #GlobalWarming, experts say.

    "The worst of the storms appeared to be over by Sunday afternoon."

    Read more:
    kiro7.com/news/heres-what-know

    #KonaStorm #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

  3. Here's what to know as the scope of damage from #Hawaii's #floods becomes clearer

    By AUDREY McAVOY and GENE JOHNSON
    March 23, 2026 at 3:18 pm PDT

    HONOLULU โ€” "The worst #flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud.

    "Crews continued to assess the destruction Monday, but authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged, along with some schools and a hospital.

    "No deaths have been reported, but more than 230 people had to be rescued. Rain continued to the southeastern part of the state and a section of the #BigIsland was under a #FlashFlood warning.

    "Gov. Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, homes and a Maui hospital in Kula. He called it the stateโ€™s most serious since flooding since 2004, when floods in Manoa inundated homes and a University of Hawaii library.

    "On Oahu's North Shore, famed for big wave surfing, the waters rose quickly after midnight Friday as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier. Raging waters lifted homes and cars. The storm prompted evaluation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu โ€” though they were later lifted โ€” and more than 230 people were rescued from the rising waters.

    "Some residents fled on surfboards as water reached waist or chest high.

    "Farms around the state reported more than $9.4 million worth of damage as of Monday, according to a survey conducted by Agriculture Stewardship Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other organizations. Oahu farmers reported more than $2.7 million in crop damage.
    Winter storm systems brought severe deluges

    "Officials blamed some of the devastation on the sheer amount of rain that fell in a short amount of time.

    "Parts of Oahu received 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters), the National Weather Service said. That was on top of another recent storm that had dumped vast amounts days earlier. Kaala, the islandโ€™s highest peak, got nearly 16 inches (40 centimeters) late last week, on top of 26.6 inches (67.6 centimeters) between March 10 and 16.

    "Winter storm systems known as '#Kona lows,' which feature southerly or southwesterly winds that bring in moisture-laden air, have been responsible for the deluges in the past two weeks. The intensity and frequency of heavy rains in Hawaii have increased amid human-caused #GlobalWarming, experts say.

    "The worst of the storms appeared to be over by Sunday afternoon."

    Read more:
    kiro7.com/news/heres-what-know

    #KonaStorm #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

  4. Here's what to know as the scope of damage from #Hawaii's #floods becomes clearer

    By AUDREY McAVOY and GENE JOHNSON
    March 23, 2026 at 3:18 pm PDT

    HONOLULU โ€” "The worst #flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud.

    "Crews continued to assess the destruction Monday, but authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged, along with some schools and a hospital.

    "No deaths have been reported, but more than 230 people had to be rescued. Rain continued to the southeastern part of the state and a section of the #BigIsland was under a #FlashFlood warning.

    "Gov. Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, homes and a Maui hospital in Kula. He called it the stateโ€™s most serious since flooding since 2004, when floods in Manoa inundated homes and a University of Hawaii library.

    "On Oahu's North Shore, famed for big wave surfing, the waters rose quickly after midnight Friday as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier. Raging waters lifted homes and cars. The storm prompted evaluation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu โ€” though they were later lifted โ€” and more than 230 people were rescued from the rising waters.

    "Some residents fled on surfboards as water reached waist or chest high.

    "Farms around the state reported more than $9.4 million worth of damage as of Monday, according to a survey conducted by Agriculture Stewardship Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other organizations. Oahu farmers reported more than $2.7 million in crop damage.
    Winter storm systems brought severe deluges

    "Officials blamed some of the devastation on the sheer amount of rain that fell in a short amount of time.

    "Parts of Oahu received 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters), the National Weather Service said. That was on top of another recent storm that had dumped vast amounts days earlier. Kaala, the islandโ€™s highest peak, got nearly 16 inches (40 centimeters) late last week, on top of 26.6 inches (67.6 centimeters) between March 10 and 16.

    "Winter storm systems known as '#Kona lows,' which feature southerly or southwesterly winds that bring in moisture-laden air, have been responsible for the deluges in the past two weeks. The intensity and frequency of heavy rains in Hawaii have increased amid human-caused #GlobalWarming, experts say.

    "The worst of the storms appeared to be over by Sunday afternoon."

    Read more:
    kiro7.com/news/heres-what-know

    #KonaStorm #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

  5. Here's what to know as the scope of damage from #Hawaii's #floods becomes clearer

    By AUDREY McAVOY and GENE JOHNSON
    March 23, 2026 at 3:18 pm PDT

    HONOLULU โ€” "The worst #flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud.

    "Crews continued to assess the destruction Monday, but authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged, along with some schools and a hospital.

    "No deaths have been reported, but more than 230 people had to be rescued. Rain continued to the southeastern part of the state and a section of the #BigIsland was under a #FlashFlood warning.

    "Gov. Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, homes and a Maui hospital in Kula. He called it the stateโ€™s most serious since flooding since 2004, when floods in Manoa inundated homes and a University of Hawaii library.

    "On Oahu's North Shore, famed for big wave surfing, the waters rose quickly after midnight Friday as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier. Raging waters lifted homes and cars. The storm prompted evaluation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu โ€” though they were later lifted โ€” and more than 230 people were rescued from the rising waters.

    "Some residents fled on surfboards as water reached waist or chest high.

    "Farms around the state reported more than $9.4 million worth of damage as of Monday, according to a survey conducted by Agriculture Stewardship Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other organizations. Oahu farmers reported more than $2.7 million in crop damage.
    Winter storm systems brought severe deluges

    "Officials blamed some of the devastation on the sheer amount of rain that fell in a short amount of time.

    "Parts of Oahu received 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters), the National Weather Service said. That was on top of another recent storm that had dumped vast amounts days earlier. Kaala, the islandโ€™s highest peak, got nearly 16 inches (40 centimeters) late last week, on top of 26.6 inches (67.6 centimeters) between March 10 and 16.

    "Winter storm systems known as '#Kona lows,' which feature southerly or southwesterly winds that bring in moisture-laden air, have been responsible for the deluges in the past two weeks. The intensity and frequency of heavy rains in Hawaii have increased amid human-caused #GlobalWarming, experts say.

    "The worst of the storms appeared to be over by Sunday afternoon."

    Read more:
    kiro7.com/news/heres-what-know

    #KonaStorm #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

  6. ๐ŸŒŸ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  [Google Researchโ€™s] ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž - ๐€๐ง ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐œ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ.
    --
    doi.org/10.31223/X5RR2K / eartharxiv.org/repository/view <-- shared paper
    --
    zenodo.org/records/18647054 <-- shared link to associated dataset
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    sites.research.google/gr/flood <-- shared link to Google Research flood forecasting effort entry page
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    #GoogleResearch #Google #Gemini #AI #ClimateTech #MachineLearning #DataScience #FloodForecasting #Sustainability #TechForGood #aggregation #curated #newsarticles #news #media #article #harvesting #reports #reporting #global #world #historic #naturalhazards #naturaldisaster #floods #flooding #flashflood #water #hydrology #extremeweather #climatechange #GDACS #Groundsource #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geographic #openaccess #openscience #opendata #floodevents #LLM #gemini #largelanguagemodel #deeplearning #AI #precision #metrics #historicresource #model #modeling #forecasting #opensource

  7. Power came back on around noon and I got in the shower which slowly transitioned from between lukewarm and brisk pretty much the whole time. So, I didn't have to go to my friend's place for dinner (delicious sausage sauce pasta) and board games (Kill Doctor Lucky) whilst simultaneously greasy and flakey.

    I did need to bum a ride because the rain flooded our garage parking like always. I ordered some over-the-shoes rain covers for next time.

    #AtmosphericRiver #FlashFlood #ChristmasEve

  8. Boy, I would not like to be those people. If the washouts are bad enough, they leave your car up there until they can build an emergency road. (although, being stranded there is probably bad too) #SanBernardinoCounty #mudslides #flashflood #CAwx

  9. PDS Flash Flood Emergency in Roanoke, Virginia.

    * At 902 PM EDT, gauge reports indicated thunderstorms producing
    heavy rain across the warned area. Between 3 and 5 inches of rain
    have fallen. Flooding impacts will continue, but no additional
    rainfall is expected. Flash flooding is already occurring.

    This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for The City of Roanoke, and the
    city of Salem . This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK
    HIGHER GROUND NOW!

    #VAwx #Roanoke #FlashFlood #Flooding #FlashFloodEmergency

    alerts-v2.weather.gov/search?i

  10. @TexasObserver @candicequestions When #Texas Lt. Governor #DanPatrick said โ€œThere are more important things than livingโ€, he was including keep businesses open during the most dangerous (early) period of the #COVID # pandemic. texastribune.org/2020/04/21/te

    But he said โ€œthingsโ€, plural. Now we can add NOT having #FlashFlood warning systems, which would be both #woke (empathy for future #flood victims) and based on #science. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south

  11. Storms and hail forecast for #albuquerque. Covered the #garden with my patchwork of old shower curtains, tomato cages, and binder clips (what? Iโ€™m a teacher!). Absolutely no #NWS alerts about #flashflood danger, thanks #doge. Remember: ditches are deadly, #burquenos. #newmexico

  12. How wildfires leave communities vulnerable to flooding, mudslides for years

    #Wildfires of every size leave behind something known as a #BurnScar, or the area of land charred by flames and left devoid of vegetation.

    By Brian Lada

    "#Flooding and #DebrisFlows can happen with little warning in burn scars and most commonly occur during a heavy thunderstorm or major #rainstorm.

    "'Rainfall that would normally be absorbed will run off extremely quickly after a #wildfire, as burned soil can be as water repellent as pavement. As a result, much less rainfall [than normal] is required to produce a #FlashFlood,' The National Weather Service (#NWS) said."

    Read more:
    accuweather.com/en/weather-new
    #CaliforniaFires #BurnScars #FloodDanger

  13. I often remark to friends about #Pakistan 's mountainous north being unsuitable for life now thanks to #ClimateChange induced melting, flooding, and landslides.

    The #Karakorum #Highway the world's highest such motorway connecting Pak to #China should be thought of a "seasonal" road now, gets washed away on an annual basis, sometimes more frequently.

    We cannot afford to rebuild every year!

    dawn.com/news/1853216/karakora

    #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #Heatwave #GLOF #SouthAsia #FlashFlood #Gilgit

  14. Further north, in #Pakistan 's mountainous province of #GilgitBaltistan, a #heatwave the past week has cause #FlashFlood and #GLOF or a Glacial Lake Outburst Flow, a wall of water that floods down mountains once it's ice wall melts and breaks like a dam.

    GLOFs have become "common" in Northern Pakistan in the past decade, washing away infrastructure, towns and farms almost annually.

    dawn.com/news/1849999/gb-river

    #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #ClimateDeaths #SouthAsia #Gilgit #Paktodon

  15. #Ruidoso > #SouthForkFire and #SaltFire .... A flash flood warning is now in effect for the Blue 2, Salt, South Fork, and McBride burn scars around Ruidoso.

    Potentially heavy rainfall is headed towards #Ruidoso today. While this could help suppress the South Fork and Salt wildfires, it could also trigger additional #mudslides and #flashflood emergencies.

    If you did not evacuate, please be aware of your surroundings, be prepared to move to higher ground. Know the risks, prepare before your area is threatened.

  16. "โ€œAs long as fossil fuel emissions continue, this will get worse,โ€ he said. โ€œSo this wonโ€™t be a new normal. This will be a way station on the way to ever more intense systems unless we choose to dramatically decrease emissions.โ€ #leominster #flashflood #disaster #MAwx

  17. A Massachusetts city deluged by 'catastrophic' flooding faces more danger as homes near a precarious dam get evacuated

    September, 12, 2023

    "'Leominster is about 26 square miles. We have 12 hills, and obviously from those hills comes the water,' the mayor said. 'And with 11 inches of rain, it just adds to the โ€ฆ water (going) downhill.'"

    accuweather.com/en/severe-weat

    #ClimateCrisis #Polycrisis #Polykrisis #Massachusetts #Leominster #FlashFlood #Flooding #HeavyRain #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

  18. More #shelters in various states

    #PA
    Glenside Elementary
    500 Lackawanna St
    #Reading
    #BerksCounty

    #NY
    Sacred Heart School
    7 Cozzens Ave
    #HighlandFalls
    #OrangeCounty #NY

    #VT
    Barre Auditorium
    16 Auditorium Hill
    #Barre
    #WashingtonCounty

    #flashflood #Flood #VTwx #NYwx #PAwx