Two Cat-5 hurricanes, Jova & Lee: What you need to know

This will be the first time since records began that there have been concurrent Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins.

Hurricane Jova in the Pacific and Hurricane Lee in the Atlantic.

• Hurricane Jova in the Eastern Pacific strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane on Wednesday, becoming the strongest storm in the Western Hemisphere so far in 2023. It had winds of 160 mph at its peak.

• Jova is not expected to make landfall and will continue moving over the open Pacific, weake…