NATION : Hurricane Expected to Miss Hawaii
Hurricane Dalilia swirled toward Hawaii today on a course that would take it 150 miles south of the state’s southernmost island, meteorologists said.
“Anything can happen. The way it looks now we may get a little from it, but not much,” said Edmund Manning of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center here. “But then you can’t be too optimistic.”
At 2 a.m. today, the hurricane was 830 miles east-southeast of Hawaii Island, southernmost in the chain, moving west-northwest at 20 m.p.h., Manning said. Its maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h.. A storm is classified a hurricane when that speed reaches 74 m.p.h.
At that speed and course, the hurricane was expected to pass south of Hawaii Island, the “Big Island,” on Tuesday night.
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