Cooler ocean temperatures east of the islands typically keep major hurricanes away, but El Niño is helping fuel this year’s risks.
- Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Tampa
Forecasters warned of ‘potentially historic rainfall’ and ‘dangerous to locally catastrophic flooding.’ A hurricane scientist explains what El Niño, a heat dome and mountains have to do with the risk.
El Niño years put Hawaii and the Mexican Riviera on alert for destructive tropical storms and hurricanes.
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