although hurricane Gilma is still moving slowly across the Waters of the East Pacific dangerous weather is not forecast to reach Hawaii until the end of the month as to the public advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center the storm is expected to persist as a major hurricane on Friday when wind speeds were constant at 120 mph on Thursday the center declared that it had attain Category 3 status there are currently no Watches or Warnings for the coast the nhc's public alert states that tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 115 Mi and hurricane force winds extend outward up to 35 mi from the center at this moment hurricane Gilma is located over 1,000 Mi east of Hilo Hawaii and over 1,000 Mi west southwest of the southernmost point of the Baga California peninsula in Mexico the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stated on X that hurricane gilmo was churning between two other unnamed Pacific storms one close to Hawaii and another to the southeast on Thursday afternoon this could result in a tropical storm watch for parts of the main Hawaiian Islands as early as Thursday night or Friday Hawaii is at risk of fire from tropical storm home authorities are worried about a tropical depression that developed into tropical storm home on Thursday which is located approximately 1,090 Mi east of Honolulu and with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph before crossing the islands by the end of this weekend or the beginning of next week hon is predicted to continue strengthening as it gets closer to Hawaii interests in Hawaii should closely monitor this disturbance though it remains too early to determine the exact location and magnitude of potential impacts the Hurricane Center stated a year after wildfires on Maui destroyed the town of Lena and claimed 102 lives Hawaiians are watching the firstname storm of the 2024 Central Pacific hurricane season one of the main causes of the fire which turned into the worst wildfire in US history in more than a century was a distant hurricane hurricane season is extremely active according to Noah according to Noah's website this year has proven to be a very active hurricane season as atmospheric and oceanic factors have created the ideal conditions for it to be the busiest on record last weekend hurricane nesto made landfall in Bermuda bringing dangerous rip currents and waves to the east coast coasts furthermore hurricane Barrel struck many Caribbean islands last month resulting in catastrophic damage and the deaths of 20 people according to Noah when it made landfall in the United States and traveled through Texas Louisiana and Vermont a preliminary death toll of 25 was reported there's a chance that 8 to 13 of the 17 to 24 Nam storm STS in the Atlantic could develop into hurricanes and four to seven of them could become major hurricanes with Winds of above 111 mph typically about 14 storms receive names hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30 of those seven develop into hurricanes and three into major hurricanes