Ulika Weakening in the Eastern Pacific

September 28,2016
Ulika quickly intensified into a hurricane late Tuesday night, Hawaiian time, but won't live long thanks to a familiar foe of tropical cyclones. The tropical storm has begun to weaken due to higher wind shear and cooler ocean temperatures.
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Ulika was located about 1,100 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, as of Wednesday evening, local time.

Current Storm Information, Infrared Satellite Image

Ulika will take a slow curl toward the northwest, then west through Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast.

Projected Path

Strong wind shear will continue to rip apart Ulika through late week well east of the Big Island of Hawaii. Thus, it is no threat to the Hawaiian Islands.
According to the NHC Hurricane Specialist Eric Blake, Ulika was the first storm the NHC has written advisories on that has had a central Pacific name.
This is because Ulika has straddled near 140 degrees West longitude, the dividing line between the use of central Pacific names and eastern Pacific names for tropical storms and hurricanes.
Due to that strange crossover, according to Philip Klotzbach, Ulika is the first storm on record that starts with the letter "U" to be a tropical cyclone in either the north Atlantic or northeast Pacific basin.

This is mainly because neither list of names for those basins contains a "U" name.

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