HONOLULU—A major hurricane was churning across the Pacific Ocean but was several hundred miles south-southeast of Hawaii and posed no threat to the islands, forecasters said Tuesday.
Hurricane Iona is one of two major weather systems in the central Pacific Ocean.
In its latest advisory, the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center said Iona was about 735 miles away from Honolulu, with maximum sustained winds near 125 mph.
Additional strengthening was forecast later on Tuesday, with steady weakening expected to begin by Wednesday. Iona was moving west at 14 mph.
Hurricane Iona is the first named storm of the hurricane season in the central Pacific and emerged Sunday from a tropical depression. It continues to trek west over warm, open waters….