Octave was a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean Tuesday morning Pacific time, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. Octave is the 15th named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific in 2025.

Simon King looks at what impacts Storm Amy, the first named storm of the season, will bring at the end of the week.

Tropical Storm Imelda formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday and could affect the southeast U.S. coastline in the coming week. Both North and South Carolina declared states of emergency ahead of the forecasted hazardous weather.

That's an unlikely outcome, said CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan. But if such a collision does occur, it could produce what's called the Fujiwhara effect, a rare phenomenon in which two different storms merge and become entangled around a newly formed, common center.

A yellow weather warning for wind is in place from 18:00 BST on Friday to midnight on Saturday as Storm Amy hits the UK, particularly affecting Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Anglesey.

While Tropical Storm Imelda and Hurricane Humberto are expected to remain off the coast of Florida, indirect impacts can be expected.

A strong offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.9 shook the central Philippines late Tuesday, damaging stone and concrete buildings, injuring several people with falling debris and sending residents scrambling out of their homes,

Red mud, clogged drains and flooding streets have longtime neighbors in northeast Charlotte demanding action from the city.