Tropical storm Henriette has become a category 1 hurricane, and is expected to strengthen to a category 2 hurricane, becoming the strongest storm of the 2013 U.S. hurricane season.

Winds topped 90 mph on Tuesday morning as hurricane Henriette barreled through the Pacific Ocean, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NBC News reports.

Forecasters expect Henriette's winds to reach 100 mph as the hurricane makes its way northwest toward Hawaii, said Chris Vaccaro, the director of public affairs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Though Henriette will increase to a Category 2 hurricane, Vaccaro said forecasts show the storm will weaken to a tropical depression before passing south of Hawaii over the weekend, NBC News reports. The Christian Post says this will likely happen on Sunday evening or Monday morning local time.

"At this time, we do not anticipate Henriette making a landfall," said NOAA meteorologist Dennis Feltgen.

Forecasters are stating that though it does not look like the storm will make landfall, there is still a possibility of that occurring, according to forecasting reports by Weather.com.

The storm is currently centered about 1,545 miles east of Hawaii, NBC News reports.

Feltgen said that the peak of the season is yet to come for both the Pacific and Atlantic. He said the heaviest hurricane activity usually occurs between mid-August and late October. Hurricane season wraps up in the Atlantic and the Pacific on Nov. 1, he said.

This has been a relatively active season in the Eastern Pacific with eight named storms so far this season. On average, there are only three Eastern Pacific hurricanes by the first week of August, The Christian Post reports.