Hurricane Iselle and Hurricane Julio To Hit Hawaii Islands This Week

Two tropical storms will hit the islands of Hawaii this week. Hurricane Iselle will make landfall later this week and Tropical Storm Julio potentially hitting a few days later. Hurricane Iselle is expected to make landfall by Thursday, officials said.

“Hawaii is a small target in the big ocean, so it just has to be really good timing and the conditions have to be right for us to get a direct hit,” said Eric Lau, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Honolulu.

The last time Hawaii was hit with a tropical storm or hurricane was in 1992, when Hurricane Iniki killed six people and destroyed more than 1,400 homes in Kauai, Lau said.