Hurricane Gilma Tracker: Check out the Category 3 Storm

Hurricane Gilma Tracker shows Hurricane Gilma continues to move slowly across East Pacific waters but isn’t expected to bring extreme weather to Hawaii until the end of the month.

The storm will remain a “major” hurricane on Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center’s public advisory. It reached Category 3 status on Thursday when wind speeds were steady at 120 miles per hour, the centre reported. No coastal warnings or watches are in effect yet.

“Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles from the centre and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 115 miles,” according to the NHC’s public advisory.

Hurricane Gilma is currently more than 1,000 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii and over 1,000 miles west-southwest of the Baja California peninsula’s southern tip in Mexico.

Hurricane Gilma was “churning” between two other unnamed Pacific storms, one near Hawaii and a tropical disturbance to the southeast on Thursday afternoon, which could prompt a Tropical Storm Watch for portions of the main Hawaiian Islands as early as Thursday night or Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wrote on X.

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Tropical Storm Hone poses fire risk to Hawaii

Meanwhile, officials are concerned over a tropical depression that strengthened into Tropical Storm Hone Thursday with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, about 1,090 miles east of Honolulu.

Hone is expected to keep developing as it nears Hawaii before passing the islands by the end of the weekend or early next week.

“Interests in Hawaii should closely monitor this disturbance, though it remains too early to determine the exact location and magnitude of potential impacts,” according to the NHC.

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Hawaiians are keeping watch on the first named storm of the 2024 central Pacific hurricane season a year after the island of Maui faced the wildfires that killed 102 people and destroyed the town of Lahaina. A faraway hurricane majorly contributed to the blaze, which became the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in over a century.

‘Extremely active’ hurricane season, NOAA says

This year has proved to be an “extremely active hurricane season” as atmospheric and oceanic conditions have set the stage for it to be the busiest on record, according to NOAA’s website.

Hurricane Ernesto hit Bermuda last weekend, bringing with it life-threatening surf and rip currents to East Coast shores. Last month, Hurricane Beryl caused “catastrophic damage” and took the lives of 20 people as it slammed into multiple Caribbean islands.

A “preliminary death toll” of 25 was recorded after it made landfall in the U.S., moving across Texas, Louisiana and Vermont, according to NOAA.

There is the possibility that anywhere between 17 to 24 storms in the Atlantic could be named and anywhere between eight to 13 of them could become hurricanes, while four to seven could become major hurricanes with winds greater than 111 mph.

Approximately 14 storms are named, usually. Seven become hurricanes and three become major hurricanes in hurricane season, which occurs from June 1 through November 30.

Hurricane Gilma Tracker: What are the 2024 hurricane season names?

Atlantic

According to the National Hurricane Center, this is the list of names for the 2024 hurricane season:

• Alberto
• Beryl
• Chris
• Debby
• Ernesto
• Francine
• Gordon
• Helene
• Isaac
• Joyce
• Kirk
• Leslie
• Milton
• Nadine
• Oscar
• Patty
• Rafael
• Sara
• Tony
• Valerie
• William

Eastern North Pacific

• Aletta
• Bud
• Carlotta
• Daniel
• Emilia
• Fabio
• Gilma
• Hector
• Ileana
• John
• Kristy
• Lane
• Miriam
• Norman
• Olivia
• Paul
• Rosa
• Sergio
• Tara
• Vicente
• Willa
• Xavier
• Yolanda
• Zeke