The National Hurricane Center said Monday, July 28, it is keeping tabs on four systems in the Pacific Ocean, including Tropical Storm Iona.

HONOLULU – Tropical Storm Iona formed south of Hawaii in the Central Pacific Ocean on Sunday evening. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Tropical Storm Iona’s maximum sustained winds reached 40 mph, officially designating it as a tropical storm.

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in tropical forests, a finding that could have major implications for carbon storage and tropical biodiversity under future global warming scenarios.

That being said, we're keeping an eye on a few tropical waves in the Atlantic. Tropical waves are the precursor to more organized tropical storms and systems that can ultimately develop into named storms. One tropical wave exists near the far eastern Caribbean and a second has just emerged off the west coast of Africa into the Atlantic.

AccuWeather hurricane experts are monitoring three areas for tropical development into the first part of August, including near the Southeast coast.

You'll want to keep the umbrella handy, too, because scattered showers and storms develop between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., moving west to east, and ending before 9 p.m.

A tropical storm is blowing across the Philippines’ mountainous north, worsening more than a week of bad weather that has caused at least 25 deaths and prompted evacuations in villages affected by flo

The number of reported deaths due to the combined impact of the southwest monsoon and tropical cyclones Crising, Dante and Emong has risen to 31, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said yesterday.