Tropical Storm Lester continues to pull away from the Hawaiian Islands
after its center came no closer than 130 miles from Honolulu over the
weekend. Lester will move northwestward and then northward well away from Hawaii, with no further threat to land.
Here's the latest on Lester:
- Tropical Storm Lester was located nearly 650 miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, as of Monday morning, local time.
- Lester weakened to a tropical storm late Saturday night, as wind shear and dry air are now taking their toll.
- Lester will move northwestward and then northward over the next several days into the open Pacific Ocean, with no further land threat.
Lester became the third major (Category 3 or stronger) hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season early Monday morning. It briefly reached Category 4 intensity, before weakening. A Hurricane Hunter reconnaissance mission then found Lester had pulsed back to Category 3 status
late Thursday night in what was expected to be its last pulse up before
its final weakening phase. By early Friday morning, Lester had weakened
back to a Category 2 hurricane. Lester's
center of circulation came no closer than 130 miles from Honolulu on
September 3. With its tropical storm-force wind field most expansive in
its northern half, tropical storm-force winds never came close to the
Hawaiian Islands.
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| The red-shaded area denotes the potential path of the center of the tropical cyclone. Note that impacts (particularly heavy rain, high surf, coastal flooding) with any tropical cyclone may spread beyond its forecast path. |
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