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Last Updated: Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 04:32 PM
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As El Niño supercharges Pacific storms, Hawaii braces for another hurricane

El Niño has fueled a string of hurricanes in the Pacific but kept the Atlantic season at a 75-year low. Meanwhile, unusual sea creatures are popping up along the West Coast.
Waves are visible through an opening in a building, with sandbags stacked on the ground.
Sandbags stacked along the Pacific coastline in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, in preparation for Hurricane Polo on Thursday.Enrique Castro / AFP via Getty Images

Sea turtles are nesting in California, where they’d never been seen before. Hurricane Nolo in the Pacific is expected to dump 2 feet of rain on parts of Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend. And for the first time in at least 75 years, there hasn’t been a single hurricane in the Atlantic this season. All of these phenomena are likely effects of a record-setting El Niño.

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