{"id":65727,"date":"2026-09-26T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=65727"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:55:56","slug":"hurricane-nolo-strengthens-to-category-2-threatens-hawaii-with-catastrophic-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/hurricane-nolo-strengthens-to-category-2-threatens-hawaii-with-catastrophic-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Nolo strengthens to Category 2, threatens Hawaii with catastrophic flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hurricane Nolo has strengthened into a Category 2 storm south of Hawaii, threatening the Big Island with catastrophic and potentially life-threatening flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US National Hurricane Center warned that rainfall associated with the hurricane could cause catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides, particularly in areas of steep terrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawaii stepped up preparations as Nolo approached, with officials urging residents to prepare emergency kits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 230 Hawaii National Guard personnel were activated under the state&#8217;s emergency arrangements, while schools on Hawaii Island were closed for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Nolo has strengthened into a Category 2 storm south of Hawaii, threatening the Big Island with catastrophic and potentially life-threatening flooding. The US National Hurricane Center warned that rainfall associated with the hurricane could cause catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides, particularly in areas of steep terrain. Hawaii stepped up preparations as Nolo approached, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65729,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65727\/revisions\/65729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}