The first tropical storm formed this Sunday morning in the Pacific Ocean six days before the official start of this 2021 hurricane season, and will be named Andrés.

The tropical storm is 620 miles south-southeast of the southernmost coast of Baja California, Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in its 11 a.m. ET bulletin.

The report indicates that the depression has maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour and is moving at a speed of 6 miles per hour in a northwesterly direction.

The depression is not expected to get much stronger in the next few hours and would start to weaken on Monday. It would be a low pressure carryover on Tuesday.

The hurricane season in the Pacific is from May 15 to November 30, while the season in the Atlantic is from June 1 to November 30.

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