In the Pacific, forecasters are watching five systems, including Hurricane Iona and Tropical Storm Keli. Iona has strengthened into a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph about 790 miles south-southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Central Pacific records its strongest hurricane in almost two years and two concurrent named storms for the first time in a decade.

It’s been a quiet start to the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, but all that could change dramatically as we head into the first part of August.

A so-far unremarkable Atlantic hurricane season is heading for a 'pivot point,' forecasters warn. Here's what to expect.

Hurricane season stretches six months from June through November, but there is a distinct peak in activity that ramps up beginning in August and lasting into October because of several factors in the atmosphere and ocean.

A tropical wave moving across the Atlantic Ocean has no chance of further development as environmental conditions became more unfavorable, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday morning. Forecasters sent their final update on the disturbance at 1 a.m. Tuesday.

As we discussed in Friday’s newsletter, the Atlantic is beginning its pivot into the traditionally busiest 6-week stretch of the hurricane season.

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While environmental conditions were marginally conducive for some development, forecasters said development would be slow and the wave is expected to hit conditions that will be unfavorable in the coming days. As of Monday morning, the system had a 20% chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm in the next seven days.

Saharan dust may be chipping away at the current tropical system, but experts say it usually winds down before August.