{"id":197802,"date":"2025-09-03T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197802\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:10:17","slug":"tracking-kiko-hurricane-kiko-nearing-major-strength-still-far-from-hawaii-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197802\/","title":{"rendered":"TRACKING KIKO | Hurricane Kiko nearing major strength, still far from Hawaii | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU (Island News) &#8212; Hurricane Kiko continues to strengthen as it moves across the eastern Pacific, well east-southeast of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>As of early Wednesday morning, Kiko\u2019s winds have reached 110 miles per hour, just shy of major hurricane status. Forecasters expect it to become a major hurricane later today.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is located about 1,665 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii, and is moving slowly west at around 8 miles per hour. Kiko is expected to keep moving in this general direction over the next few days, with a slight turn toward the west-northwest and a small increase in speed.<\/p>\n<p>Although Kiko is getting stronger, it remains far from land and is not currently a threat to any coastal areas. No watches or warnings are in effect.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitv.com\/weather\/hurricane-center\/tracking-kiko-hurricane-kiko-expected-to-become-a-category-3-storm\/article_0e7a8ffc-aaae-4a36-8078-4a14ecc8e725.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"TRACKING KIKO | Hurricane Kiko expected to become a Category 3 storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"TRACKING KIKO | Hurricane Kiko expected to become a Category 3 storm\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68b7e558ac395.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (Island News) &#8212; Hurricane Kiko continues to strengthen as it moves across the eastern Pacific, well east-southeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,26621,5522,109741,159,7925,109742,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-197802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-hawaii","10":"tag-hurricane","11":"tag-kiko","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-storm","14":"tag-tracking","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115142421630425284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197802","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=197802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}