Hurricane Nolo

Hurricane — Category 3 Nolo is packing 100-kt (115-mph) winds, moving NNW at 13 kt (15 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

At 200 AM HST (1200 UTC), the center of Hurricane Nolo was located near latitude 20.1 North, longitude 164.0 West. Nolo is moving toward the north near 10 mph (17 km/h). On the forecast track, the center of Nolo will remain well southwest and west of the main Hawaiian Islands. Nolo will continue to move northward across the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument today. On Wednesday, Nolo will slowly turn toward the west, and continue generally westward through the latter part of the week. Maximum sustained winds are near 115 mph (185 km/h) with higher gusts. Nolo is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Weakening is forecast over the next couple of days, followed by some re-intensification during the latter part of this week. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles (75 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175— National Hurricane Center · public advisory 35

Nolo tracks over open water — no coast is in the outlook. Along its path, our forecast reads:

This is the East Pacific · 18°N–28°N, 178°W–162°W. Nolo’s forecast track is the dotted spine — the labelled dots mark its position each day. Every cell is shaded by how many hours it spends inside Nolo’s gale-force (≥34 kt · 39 mph) wind across the whole forecast, the damaging core counted double.

Read it two ways at once. Colour is the total — the hours of gale-force wind a place piles up. A slow storm writes its danger in duration, not in any single gust, so the longer the wind sits over a place, the deeper its colour. Opacity is confidence — solid where the official probability of that wind is high, faint where it is only a chance. So a deep, solid cell is a place the wind will work for a long time and likely will; a pale, faint one is a brief, uncertain brush at the edge of the cone.

Hurricane Nolo is closing in on the warned atolls as a major system, with communicators confirming that forecasters expected hurricane conditions to arrive by Tuesday. Reports differ on its top winds, ranging from 125 to 145 miles per hour, while one meteorologist added that the eye shows a classic stadium effect along with small embedded vortices that mark its intense structure. These details align with the official forecast on the storm's approach but highlight variations in strength and internal features that refine the picture for those in the path.

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