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Nolo becomes a Category 3 Hurricane in the remote Pacific Ocean · Best of: Features

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  Nolo becomes a Category three hurricane in the remote Pacific Ocean, This
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  article is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. NOLO
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  strengthened into a major hurricane Saturday in the remote Pacific Ocean, far
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  to the west of Hawaii's main islands and population centers. The storm's
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  maximum sustained winds rapidly intensified to one hundred and fifteen miles per
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  hour, one hundred and eighty five kilometers per hour, the Miami based
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  National Hurricane Center reported, meaning it was a Category three hurricane. As
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  of the evening, Nolo was located about two hundred miles, three hundred
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  and twenty kilometers, south southwest of Lyziansky Island.
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  And moving westward at twenty miles per hour, thirty one kilometers per
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  hour. A tropical storm warning was issued for the Papahanomakuakea Marine National
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  Monument, a massive and remote federally protected area with islands, atolls, seamounts,
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  shoals, and coral reefs from Morrow Reef to Lisianski Island. Then hurricane
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  center said large surf associated with NOLO will likely inundate some of
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  the low lying atolls. No threat was in the forecast for any
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  populated islands, however. The Hurricane Center said NOLA was expected to cross
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  the international date line Sunday, NOLO skirted Hawaii as a hurricane a
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  week ago. It then lost some of its punch and became a
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  tropical storm before regaining hurricane strength Friday. Meanwhile, another Pacific hurricane, Category
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  one Rachel, continued heading westward on a path, away from the west
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  coast of Mexico. Dangerous swells were forecast through the weekend for the
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  coast of west central Mexico, and through Monday for the Baja California
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  Peninsula, according to the Hurricane Center.