Amid the cleanup, more rain is coming

The weather system that dumped so much rain over the weekend is expected to head back to Kauai this evening and Thursday, bringing more rain as residents are still struggling to clean up.

“It probably will be another round of heavy rain and potentially thunderstorms,” said Matthew Foster, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu. “The grounds are already very saturated, so it’s not going to take as much to bring the flooding back.”

Foster said the unstable weather is likely to make its way to Kauai and Oahu tonight through Thursday night and move on to Maui and Hawaii island from Thursday to Friday morning.

“That low-pressure system that brought us all that weather this weekend is about 800 miles west of us now,” he said Tuesday afternoon. “It’s going to weaken, and then it’s going to start moving back towards us tomorrow.”

“Luckily, this will be kind of pushing through quickly,” he predicted. “It won’t stay around too long, like the prolonged event this weekend.”