One person is dead and more than 100,000 are without power after Hurricane Lala slammed into Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend.
Hurricane Lala’s eyewall skimmed the Big Island on Saturday and weakened into a tropical storm on Sunday.
The Category 1 storm packed 75 mile per hour winds and caused severe flooding.
Rainbow Falls in Hilo, Hawaii, is roaring as Hurricane Lala brought torrential rain this weekend. pic.twitter.com/lFGGkduy24
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) August 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala produced snow on the summit of Mauna Kea (13,800 ft).
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It’s happening. Hurricane Lala is currently producing SNOW on the summit of Mauna Kea pic.twitter.com/kwz1RNm0Yl
— Greg Diamond (@gdimeweather) August 16, 2026
NBC News reported:
One person was killed in a storm-related car crash as Hurricane Lala brought fierce winds and pouring rain to Hawaii’s Big Island on Saturday.
Footage on social media showed floodwaters rising, overtaking roadways and bridges as Lala dumped rain on Hawaii’s Big Island. Howling winds whipped the tops of palm trees and waterways swelled with fast-moving runoff from relentless rain that blew nearly sideways.
According to the National Weather Service’s Honolulu office, two homes were swept away due to intense rainfall over Naalehu, with flash flooding ongoing.
Hawaii County Mayor Kimo Alameda said in an Instagram post that “several occupied homes may have been swept off their foundations” amid flash flooding in the Alihu and Waiheno areas, with a search and rescue mission underway.
More than 125,000 utility customers in the state, mostly on the Big Island, were without electricity, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.
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