MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Kiko was on a path toward Hawaii over the next several days as post-tropical cyclone Lorena soaked Mexico's Baja California peninsula with heavy rain, forecasters said Friday.

Kiko was a Category 3 hurricane, but far enough away from the Hawaiian Islands that the National Hurricane Center in Miami said it was too early to tell the exact location and severity of impacts expected to reach the 50th U.S. state around the middle part of next week.

The center of Kiko was about 1,245 miles (2,000 kilometers) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, according to a Friday morning advisory. Top winds were sustained at 115 mph (185 kph), and forecasters said Kiko was traveling west-northwest at 9 mph (15 kph).

Kiko's strength would fluctuate over the next two days, forecasters said,

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