"The effects of El Niño are already being clearly felt on the archipelago. “There have now been two major hurricane events in #Hawaii this summer, in a place where ordinarily we go a decade with none,” Swain says.
"Warming waters in the Pacific have increased the risk to Hawaii from such supercharged storms. In August, Hurricane Lala became the first hurricane to make a direct hit on Big Island since 1871."
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