1982–83 El Niño event
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The 1982–1983 El Niño event was one of the strongest El Niño events since records were kept.
It led to droughts in Indonesia and Australia, widespread flooding across the southern United States, lack of snow in the northern United States, and an anomalously warm winter across much of the mid-latitude regions of North America and Eurasia.[1] The estimated global economic impact was over US$8 billion,[2] though more recent work has upward revised this number to be $4.1 trillion.[3] This El Niño event also led to an abnormal number of hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean during this time span; the strongest hurricane up to 1983 hit Hawaii during the event.[4]