The storms are expected to become weaker in the coming days, but another tropical depression is forecasted to form later in the week.

Tropical Storm Barbara has strengthened into a hurricane, the first of the eastern Pacific hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday swells generated

Barbara was a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean early Monday Mountain time, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. The tropical storm had sustained wind speeds of 70 miles per hour.