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Hurricane Lane poses danger to Hawaii

By Daniel Chaitin
Published August 21, 2018 4:55pm ET
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Hurricane Lane poses danger to Hawaii
This NASA satellite imagery shows Hurricane Lane in the Central Pacific Ocean southeast of the Hawaiian Islands at 2:01 p.m. HST Monday. National Weather Service forecasters warn that the entire state of Hawaii needs to brace for a possible hurricane strike because of the uncertainty of Lane's path and its intensity. As of Monday, the storm is about 600 miles (966 kilometers) southeast of Hilo on the Big Island, or about 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) from the state's capital city of Honolulu. | (NASA via AP)

Yet another dangerous cyclone is threatening Hawaii this week, as Hurricane Lane is expected to make a turn towards the island chain in the coming days.

Currently a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, Lane could leave “catastrophic” damage in its wake. The storm has sustained maximum winds of 150 miles per hour.

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