The 2026 Eastern Pacific hurricane season has its first named storm. A tropical depression that formed south of Baja California strengthened into Tropical Storm Amanda, marking the earliest significant weather event in this basin for the year.

The eastern Pacific has seen three tropical storms form in less than a week. In the Atlantic basin, wind shear is helping keep conditions quiet. The most common locations for June storms to develop are the northwestern Caribbean,

June is hurricane season's first and one of the slowest months. According to the National Hurricane Center, two tropical storms formed in June last year. The first was on June 23. Neither storm made landfall in the U.S. One storm formed in the Gulf of Mexico, and the other far off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean.

Only a handful of intense storms have ever been recorded in this part of the world