Why the fires in Hawaii have been so bad
I language, Lahaina means “cruel sun”. The north-east trade winds provide the eastern shore of Maui with ample rain and the West Maui mountains with a superfluity of it. But Lahaina, the capital of the Hawaiian kingdom in the 19th century, sits in the mountains’ rain shadow and so gets…
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