Hurricane Nolo is now Typhoon Nolo. Where is it going next?

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Hurricane Nolo is now Typhoon Nolo

Hurricane Nolo, which threatened Hawaii in late September, has become Typhoon Nolo. It made the transition from a hurricane directly to a typhoon after crossing the International Date Line on October 4. The storm is not currently threatening land, as it’s positioned well west of Hawaii and far east of Japan.

Nothing about the hurricane itself changed. Rather, it crossed into a new “jurisdiction,” if you will. At that point, responsibility for tracking the storm shifted from the U.S. National Hurricane Center to agencies monitoring tropical cyclones in the western Pacific. Hurricane and typhoons are both tropical cyclones that have specific titles depending on where they’re located. We call them hurricanes in the eastern and central Pacific, and we call them typhoons in the western North Pacific.

As of Tuesday morning, Typhoon Nolo had maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (177 km/h). That would equate to a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.

Forecasters expect the storm to continue moving generally westward, with little change in strength in the near term. No watches or warnings are in effect at the time of writing.

Will Nolo remain a typhoon when it reaches land on the western edge of the Pacific? That remains to be seen.

When Nolo brushed by Hawaii

Nolo has had an unusually long life.

The storm first developed as Tropical Depression 15-E in the eastern Pacific on September 13. It weakened and dissipated, but its remnants later redeveloped south of Hawaii.

Nolo strengthened into a tropical storm on September 23. Then it rapidly intensified into a hurricane on September 24. At its strongest near Hawaii, it reached Category 3 strength, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h).

Although Nolo never made landfall on the main Hawaiian Islands, it brought heavy rain, dangerous surf and flooding to parts of Hawaii. The eastern and southern portions of the Big Island received some of the heaviest impacts, with widespread rainfall and some mudslides.

After passing Hawaii, Nolo weakened to a tropical storm. But the storm later regained hurricane strength as it moved westward across the Pacific.

For future updates on Typhoon Nolo, visit the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Bottom line: Hurricane Nolo became Typhoon Nolo on October 4, 2026, after crossing the International Date Line. It is slowly churning toward Japan.

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