While it’s not unusual for the Pacific Ocean to kick off first — its season begins May 15 — many recent years have featured early named storms in the Atlantic Ocean. This year is unusual.

The hurricane center said Flossie, currently located about 185 miles south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean, has maximum sustained winds near 45 mph with higher gusts.

The hurricane center gives the system, currently labeled as EP95, an 80% chance of formation through the next seven days. The next named storm in the North Pacific basin will be Flossie.

The hurricane center said Flossie, currently located about 185 miles south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean, has maximum sustained winds near 45 mph with higher gusts.

An area of low pressure is forecast to develop early next week off the coast of Central America, that comes after Hurricane Erick slammed into the southern coast of Mexico as a Category 3 Thursday.

Hurricane Erick, which rapidly intensified overnight, made landfall Thursday morning on Mexico's Pacific Coast as a powerful Category 3 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

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