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Posted on: Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Carlos now a hurricane, but should pass far south of Hawaii


Advertiser Staff

The National Weather Service this morning upgraded tropical storm Carlos to a hurricane.

Carlos is located about 1,480 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. It has maximum sustained winds of 90 mph and is moving west at 7 mph.
A potential five-day track places Carlos several hundred miles southwest of the Big Island on Sunday.
Forecaster Norman Hui says that if Carlos remains on its current course, it will pass so far south of the state that we are unlikely to feel any effects.
This is Carlos' second go-around as a hurricane. Carlos held minimal hurricane status on Saturday before losing strength and being reclassified as a tropical storm.
Meanwhile, behind Carlos, a broad area of low pressure has developed over waters several hundred miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.
The weather service says conditions are favorable for the system to become a tropical depression in the next day or so and that there is a greater than 50 percent chance of it becoming a tropical cyclone.