MIAMI– Hurricane Fausto has strengthened into a Category 2 storm in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to approach the Hawaiian Islands next week, forecasters said. The risk of some wind and rain impacts in the area is increasing, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday, but it is too early to determine the
MIAMI– Hurricane Fausto has strengthened into a Category 2 storm in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to approach the Hawaiian Islands next week, forecasters said.
The risk of some wind and rain impacts in the area is increasing, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday, but it is too early to determine the exact location or potential magnitude.
Fausto was far from land, about 1,300 miles (2,090 kilometers) west of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and about 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers) east of Hilo, Hawaii. Maximum sustained winds were around 161 kilometers per hour (100 mph).
The hurricane center said waves generated by Fausto could cause potentially deadly waves and tides in parts of Southern California.
Fausto has been battering the Pacific as Tropical Storm Bertha moved along the Gulf Coast. Bertha brought strong waves and some flooding to southern Louisiana and Texas when it made landfall for the second time Thursday. Late last night, the hurricane center declared that Bertha had dissipated.
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