Overview
- Tropical Storm Amanda formed Wednesday from Tropical Depression One-E and currently has sustained winds near 40 mph about 1,475 miles west-southwest of Baja California.
- The National Hurricane Center and private forecasters say Amanda poses no immediate land threat and is forecast to weaken and dissipate within a few days as it moves northwest into less favorable conditions.
- The NHC is also monitoring two other eastern Pacific areas of low pressure, assigning roughly a 50% seven-day development chance to one and about a 20% chance to the other.
- NOAA projects an above-normal 2026 eastern Pacific season, forecasting 15–22 named storms, 9–14 hurricanes and 5–9 major hurricanes as sea-surface temperatures run about 2–3°C above average.
- While most eastern Pacific storms typically remain at sea, warmer waters and El Niño raise the chance of systems that can produce heavy rain or flooding in Mexico, Hawaii, or the U.S. Southwest, so coastal residents should keep following official updates.