As Saturday rolled in, Hawaii residents breathed a sigh of relief. News of Hurricane Kiko first surfaced earlier this month when a storm was said to have emerged in the eastern Pacific Ocean moving west, and “posing no immediate threat to land”. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami did not issue any coastal warnings back then, but it was soon clear that the impact would be more than expected. Over the next few days, the storm intensified into a Category 1 hurricane, before strengthening to Category 4 and then weakening to Category 3, increasing worries about direct impact. However, another fresh round of updates suggests Kiko might spare the archipelago after all.

According to CNN , “Hurricane Kiko was tracking to the north of the Hawaiian islands, diminishing the threat of s

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