{"id":99813,"date":"2025-07-28T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99813\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:35:16","slug":"tropical-storm-iona-forms-in-the-central-pacific-no-threat-to-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99813\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Iona forms in the central Pacific, no threat to Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MIAMI &#8212; Tropical Storm Iona formed in the central Pacific Ocean and is expected to continue trekking toward the west over warm, open waters well south of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Iona emerged Sunday from a tropical depression and was about 915 miles (1,473 kilometers) southeast of Honolulu, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. The storm was forecast to become <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/hurricanes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a hurricane<\/a> by Monday night, but currently poses no threat to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No coastal watches or warnings were in effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The storm has maximum sustained winds of about 50 mph (80 kph). It was moving in a generally westward direction at about 12 mph (19 kph).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Iona is the first named storm of the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-preparation-home-emergency-kit-0a4c7ff92a99ebaa44d8976bf3953033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hurricane season<\/a> in the central Pacific. It was forecast to weaken starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI &#8212; Tropical Storm Iona formed in the central Pacific Ocean and is expected to continue trekking toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[65230,347,10106,746,57,29606,159,3883,61,67,132,68,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-99813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-65230","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-climate-and-environment","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-hurricanes-and-typhoons","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-storms","16":"tag-u-s-news","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114931835039925266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99813","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=99813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}