{"id":322681,"date":"2026-11-06T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322681\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:02:26","slug":"tropical-storm-pena-forms-in-the-pacific-ocean-south-of-hawaii-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322681\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Pena forms in the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/hurricanes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Storm Pena<\/a> formed Friday in the Pacific Ocean, well south of the Hawaiian islands.<\/p>\n<p>Pena had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) and was centered about 650 miles (1,046 kilometers) southeast of South Point, Hawaii, and about 1,350 miles (2,173 kilometers) east-southeast of Johnston Island, according to an advisory from the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n<p>Pena was moving west at 12 mph (19 kph). It was forecast to strengthen over the next day or so, then have no significant change through next week.<\/p>\n<p>The system is expected to remain offshore of Hawaii. No watches or warnings were in effect, and no hazards were affecting land.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Ocean has had an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricanes-pacific-storms-el-nino-rachel-simon-d12aa0402deacfeb461db3aeef86d613\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">active hurricane season<\/a> due in part to El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Tropical Storm Pena formed Friday in the Pacific Ocean, well south of the Hawaiian islands.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,38,93458,130812,1133,301],"class_list":["post-322681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-general-news","tag-hurricanes-and-typhoons","tag-tropical-storm-pena-hawaii-pacific","tag-weather","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}