The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday night it is keeping tabs on a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean that is now likely to strengthen into a tropical depression over the weekend.
Hurricane center forecasters said a "broad area of low pressure" located a few hundred miles offshore of the coast of southern Mexico is producing "disorganized showers and thunderstorms."
Environmental conditions appear to be conducive for gradual development of this system, according to the hurricane center, and a "tropical depression is likely to form over the weekend" while the system moves westward to west-northwestward.
While the 2025 Pacific hurricane season began on May 15, the Atlantic season officially began on June 1 and will last through the end of November. Active hurricane weather typic