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Hurricane Dora is now a category-2 storm and is forecast to become a major hurricane, category-3, later today.

As of 5 a.m. today, Dora was 2,695 miles east-southeast of Hilo, about 575 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.

Small but mighty, Dora is packing maximum sustained winds of 105 mph with locally higher gusts, and is moving westward at 16 mph.

While Dora is rapidly intensifying and is forecast to become a major hurricane later today, gradual weakening is forecast to begin by the end of the week.

Dora is a small tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds only extending outward up to 10 miles from the center with tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 45 miles