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Hurricane Iona has strengthened into a Category 3 storm far southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. The NHC is also tracking more in the Pacific.

Erin continues to grow in size, trying to restrengthen to a category 3 hurricane before passing to our east. At 11pm, the center of Hurricane Erin was located near latitude 32.8 North, longitude 73.1 ...

making it a Category 2 hurricane on Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Hurricane center forecasters said some strengthening ...

Winds in most hurricanes can become much stronger, and hurricanes are categorized on a scale of 1 to 5 based on their wind speed, known as the Saffir-Simpson Scale.