Tropical Storm Ulika Slightly Stronger in the Eastern North Pacific

September 27,2016
Tropical Storm Ulika formed in the central Pacific Ocean Tuesday morning and continues to move northeastward in the eastern North Pacific.
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Ulika was located nearly 1,150 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, as of Tuesday evening, local time.

Current Storm Information, Infrared Satellite Image

Ulika will take a slow turn back to the north and northwest Wednesday into Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast.

Projected Path

Ulika has been on a strengthening trend since Tuesday and it could strengthen just a bit more, but it is not expected to become a hurricane.
However, Ulika's lifespan will be short.
Strong wind shear will eventually rip apart Ulika by 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.
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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