Hurricane Nolo Threatens Hawaii
Hurricane Nolo is nearing Hawaii with flooding rain as Polo batters Mexico.
What happened
Hurricane Nolo rapidly strengthened over the Pacific, becoming a Category 1 hurricane by Friday morning. It carried sustained winds around 85 mph as it moved over open ocean toward Hawaii.
Forecasters warned that the main danger is extreme rain, which could unleash catastrophic flooding and mudslides on steep terrain. Hawaii has already faced two storm emergencies in a month, after Lala flooded the Big Island and Lowell hit Kauai and Niihau. A strong El Niño has helped fuel an unusually active Pacific season.
Gov. Josh Green declared an emergency, and officials urged emergency kits, school closures and staged crews, including more than 230 Guard members.
Nolo is expected closest late Friday into Saturday.
From the left
Left-leaning accounts led with Nolo as a rain-driven flooding and mudslide danger, not mainly a wind or landfall story. CNN tied the storm to an unusually active season, calling it “supercharged” by El Niño. Scientific American lingered on the risk of another punishing hit to places already devastated.
From the right
Only one right-leaning outlet we track covered this: New York Post, under the headline “Threatening Hurricane Nolo takes aim at Hawaii as Polo slams Mexico’s coast”.
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