The US National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday that Iona strengthened a category 3 storm in the south-south-south-south-south-south-south-south-south-south-south-south-south-south.
IONA is one of the two major weather systems in the Central Pacific Ocean.
Among its latest advisor, the Center at Miami stated that Iona was about 790 miles (1,271 km) away with Maximum continuous winds with Honolulu, about 790 miles (1,271 km) from Honolulu.
It is forecast to be additional strengthening later on Tuesday, which is expected to begin by Wednesday.
Hurricane ion is the first designated storm of the storm in the middle of the Pacific and emerged from a tropical depression on Sunday. It continues to trek the West on hot, open water.
No coastal watches or warnings were effective.
Meanwhile, the tropical storm Kelly is in the south with a maximum continuous winds of 40 mph (65 kilometers per hour). It was about 960 miles (1,550 km) in the southeast of Honolulu and was moving westward at about 12 mph (19 km per hour).
The Administrator of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency hosted a statewide conference call with all the counties on Monday, during which the National Meteorological Service provided evaluation and status of storms.
“All counties are monitoring,” the agency spokesman Keel Amundson said in an email.
Another indirect effect from weather systems can be cheerful, but they are relatively small and moving towards the west and nothing will be important, said Derek Vroe with the National Meteorological Service in Honolulu.
However, after being born several hundred miles east of New Zealand, it leads to a large cheerful air.
It is expected to come to Hawaii by Thursday, at the same time the storms pass through the state.
“People can incorrectly credits the cheerful energy from these tropical systems, but they are not really,” he said.