Hurricane Nolo

Hurricane — Category 2 Nolo is packing 95-kt (110-mph) winds, moving W at 16 kt (18 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

At 1100 PM HST (0900 UTC), the center of Hurricane Nolo was located near latitude 23.6 North, longitude 176.7 West. Nolo is moving toward the west near 18 mph (30 km/h), and a general westward motion is expected to continue for the next few days. Nolo should cross the International Date Line by midday Sunday Hawaiian Time. Maximum sustained winds are near 110 mph (175 km/h) with higher gusts. Nolo is forecast to begin intensifying again over the next day or two, followed by abrupt weakening by the middle of the week. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (55 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 150 miles (240 km). The estimated minimum central pressure is 963 mb (28.44 inches).— National Hurricane Center · public advisory 55

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

This is the East Pacific · 22°N–34°N, 181°W–185°E. 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.