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Hurricane Norman is maintaining its intensity and continues to move westward.
The Category 1 hurricane, with winds at 80 mph, was located 625 miles east of Hilo and 810 miles east of Honolulu as of 5 p.m. Tuesday. It was moving toward the west at 12 mph, and a continued westward motion with a decrease in forward speed was expected Tuesday night. Hurricane-force winds extend up to 25 miles from the center and tropical storm-force winds extend up to 105 miles, forecasters with the Central Pacific Hurricane Center said Tuesday.
They said Norman will turn toward the west-northwest today, then turn toward the northwest tonight and Thursday. The storm is still expected to pass a few hundred miles northeast of the islands later this week as a tropical storm.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Olivia is intensifying and moving to the west at 12 mph. Olivia, a Category 3 hurricane with winds at 125 mph, was about 2,300 miles east-southeast of Hilo at 5 p.m. Hurricane-force winds of 74 mph or more extend up to 25 miles from the center and tropical storm-force winds of 39 mph or more extend out 90 miles, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, which monitors the Eastern Pacific.
Some weakening is expected for the next few days. Olivia is also expected to move toward the west-northwest tonight and Thursday, and weaken to a tropical storm this weekend.
Hanauma Bay switches to winter schedule
Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve will be closing an hour early starting today as it switches to its winter schedule.
The Hanauma Bay Lecture Series will still be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays.
Winter hours at the preserve are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. until the Memorial Day weekend. Its summer hours are 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. For more information, call 395-2211.
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