The first tropical storm of 2025 is likely to form in the Pacific Ocean, off the southwestern coast of Mexico, on Thursday, according to meteorologists. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory early Thursday morning that Tropical Depression One-E in the Eastern Pacific was located around 710 miles south-southeast of the southern

In the Atlantic Basin, which includes storms that form in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America (formerly known as Gulf of Mexico), hurricane season lasts from June 1 until Nov. 30. Historically, 97% of all tropical cyclones in the Atlantic will form between those two dates.