Dora now a hurricane, still intensifying and moving westward
Dora is now a hurricane.
At 5 p.m. today, the center of the storm was about 510 miles west-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, in the Eastern Pacific. It is still far away from Hawaii, 2,865 miles east-southeast of Hilo, but forecasters are keeping an eye on the storm.
Dora is a category-1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds at 75 mph with locally higher gusts, and it is rapidly intensifying and could become a major hurricane by Wednesday. It is moving to the west at 16 mph.This motion is expected to continue with a gradual turn towards the west-southwest over the next few days.
Dora is a small tropical cyclone. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 10 miles from the storm’s center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles.
