This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, shows the water vapor of Tropical Storm Moke as it advanced toward Hawaii's Big Island. (NOAA via AP)
A woman and child walk past a debris-strewn street in Naalehu, Hawaii, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, after a severe weather system went through the area. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
A roadway is washed out by mud on Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, in Naalehu, Hawaii, following heavy rains from Hurricane Lala. (Aina Akamu via AP)
Ka'u Auto Repair Shop is seen surrounded by a field of debris after Hurricane Lala in Naalehu, Hawaii, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Moke was swirling past Hawaii on Sunday, close enough to dump heavy rain on Big Island communities in the aftermath of Hurricane Lala.
The ºÃÉ«tv Hurricane Center located Moke's center about 310 miles (500 kilometers) south of Hilo Sunday morning. Its top sustained winds were around 45 mph (75 kph), but the real impact will be the rainfall in places where last weekend’s hurricane . Two deaths related to the hurricane were reported.
Forecasters expected Moke to produce as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) of total rain across the Big Island, and up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) in some isolated places, enough to cause life-threatening flooding and mudslides for the windward and southeast slopes, especially in steep terrain and over areas affected by Lala. In eastern Maui, the next in the island chain, up to 6 inches was expected, and the other islands may get an inch or two, the hurricane center said.
As with , the Big Island was expected to bear the brunt of Moke's rain and winds as it moves westward, south of the island chain.
The northeast coast of the Big Island saw the heaviest total rainfall from Lala, at 43.54 inches (1.1 meters), according to the weather service. More than 6,700 customers, most of them on the Big Island, remained without electricity on Sunday, according to .
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green and other officials had held a news conference ahead of Moke, by restocking food, medicine and other essentials.
Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Iselle formed Sunday in warm eastern Pacific waters well offshore of Mexico's southwest coast.
Iselle had top sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and was located about 595 miles (955 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect for the storm as it moved to the west-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph) far out at sea.
The U.S. ºÃÉ«tv Hurricane Center in Miami said Iselle could become a hurricane in another day or two and would kick up strong ocean swells on Baja's western coast starting Monday.
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