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.
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Here's the latest on Lester:
- Tropical Storm Lester was located nearly 800 miles north-northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, as of Monday evening, 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.
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Current Storm Status
Projected Path
History of Lester
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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