HILO, Hawaii (AP) \u2014 Tropical Storm Henriette rapidly strengthened into a hurricane Sunday in the central Pacific Ocean with further strengthening expected, but it poses no threat to land, the National Hurricane Center said. <\/p>\n
The Miami-based center said the storm was located about 445 miles (720 kilometers) north-northeast of Hilo, Hawaii, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph). <\/p>\n
It was moving northwest at 17 mph (28 kph) on a course that\u2019s expected to take it well north of the Hawaiian islands over the next few days. The storm was expected to strengthen through Monday followed by weakening on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The center described Henriette as a small tropical cyclone. Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 15 miles (30 kilometers) from the storm\u2019s center. <\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ivo was also moving through the Pacific, about 470 miles (755 kilometers) west of the tip of Baja California, Mexico, and was expected to weaken to a remnant low by Monday, the hurricane center said.<\/p>\n
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph). No coastal watches or warnings were in effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILO, Hawaii (AP) \u2014 Tropical Storm Henriette rapidly strengthened into a hurricane Sunday in the central Pacific Ocean…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1613,10109,10106,746,57,26621,81747,57010,29606,1612,2222,930,31724,159,3883,61,67,132,68,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-135761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-central-america","9":"tag-climate","10":"tag-climate-and-environment","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-hawaii","14":"tag-hi-state-wire","15":"tag-hilo","16":"tag-hurricanes-and-typhoons","17":"tag-latin-america","18":"tag-mexico","19":"tag-oceans","20":"tag-pacific-ocean","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-storms","23":"tag-u-s-news","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115007579992756368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}