"Kauai, which is several islands northwest up the archipelago from the Big Island, is where Hurricane Iniki made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in 1992 — an El Niño year like this one, when a warming of the Pacific near the equator increases Pacific hurricane activity and affects weather patterns across the globe."
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