The U.S. National Weather Service placed the storm close to the 180th meridian. It will be called a typhoon after moving into the western Pacific basin.
Hurricane Nolo continued west across the central Pacific, approaching the International Date Line. A U.S. National Weather Service fix at 0000 UTC on October 5 placed the storm’s centre at 24.6 north, 179.4 west, just east of the line.
The change from hurricane to typhoon reflects the storm’s basin location, not a weakening. Tropical cyclones in the central and eastern Pacific are called hurricanes, while those in the northwestern Pacific are called typhoons. The weather service forecast Nolo to cross the line and continue west.
One of the latest U.S. National Hurricane Center advisories put Nolo’s sustained winds at 115 miles per hour. Hurricane specialist John Cangialosi said the storm remained far from land over a vast stretch of ocean.