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Hurricanes in Hawaii are pretty rare, generally, for reasons that are hard to pinpoint. There's speculation that the mountainous terrain breaks up storms as they approach. Maybe it's wind patterns or ocean currents in that part of the Pacific, similar to how hurricanes rarely affect California. It's also, geographically speaking, a pretty small target on a big dartboard. Most of the time storms brush past without actually making landfall.
There were two storms -- one major hurricane, Iniki -- that hit the islands in 1992. Another made landfall the following year, and then it was 21 years before even one more storm hit. In total, only two actual hurricanes have made landfall on the islands in the last 60 years. The rest have been tropical storms or depressions.

List of Hawaii hurricanes - Wikipedia

So two hurricanes hitting Hawaii in the same year is unusual, but as with anything statistical it's more an anomaly (and not an unprecedented one) than proof of a trend.

 

Tremendously great.

 

but there's no proof he's an anti-Semite

 

Reporter: How do you overcome division in this country?
Trump: They suck, I'm awesome!

 

Do Trump and Melania really need little cards showing who they are?

California is spared because 1) tropical winds almost always blow east to west, and 2) the water temperature is way too cold.

 

The coal miners!

 

Right. Wind patterns (blow the storms the other direction) and ocean currents (the prevailing one along the West Coast is a cold water current that kills any tropical storms that do venture up that way).
A fun stat is that Arizona has been affected by almost as many, if not more, hurricanes than California has, thanks to storms that shoot up the Gulf of California.

 

Was it Bloomberg? I get that trying to link or cut and paste from them.

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The thing is that unusual stuff is happening all over at a higher rate than usual. Too many people are having too many Hundred Year Storms too often.

 

It's as if a thousands of morons screamed out in agony as they reached for their tin foil hats.

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It will be fun watching them look for a host. I love this part.