Hurricane Kiko will make direct hit on unlikely US state, spaghetti models predict
Hurricane Kiko's course has shifted and the major storm is now headed straight for Hawaii in a rare weather event for the islands.
New spaghetti models of the Category 2 hurricane project that the storm will strike Hawaii's Big Island by next week.
Kiko is currently building in strength in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with local meteorologists now predicting it will become major Category 3 hurricane Wednesday.
The storm has sustained winds of more than 100 mph after reaching hurricane status early Tuesday morning.
The last major hurricane to directly strike Hawaii was Hurricane Iniki in September 1992.
It struck as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 145 mph on September 11, causing an estimated $3 billion in damage.
As forecasters in Hawaii feared, Kiko's path appears to have shifted slightly to the right, taking it towards the US islands and away from turbulent air that would have weakened the hurricane's structure.
The National Hurricane Center has projected that Kiko will be within 500 miles of Hawaii by late Sunday night.
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