Hurricane Iona was expected to move westward and does not pose any land threat to the Hawaiian Islands, forecasters said.

The Pacific Ocean is teaming with tropical activity as forecasters track two named systems and a few other disturbances this week.

A major hurricane is churning in the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles away from Hawaii. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tuesday that Hurricane Iona is one of two major weather systems in the ocean but poses no threat to the islands.