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Pacific storm systems could become tropical cyclones, forecasters say
['Star-Advertiser Staff']
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Central Pacific Hurricane Center officials are watching two Pacific weather systems that could develop into tropical cyclones this week, with one potentially threatening Hawaii as soon as this weekend.
The next tropical cyclone to form in the Central Pacific will be named Lala.
A tropical storm has maximum sustained winds of 39 mph or more, while a hurricane has maximum sustained winds of 74 mph.
A second weather system further east in the Pacific was well west-southwest of the Baja California peninsula today, according to CPHC.
It has a 60 percent chance of forming into a tropical cyclone in the next week as it slowly moves northwest toward the Central Pacific, forecasters said.