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 was churning across the Pacific Ocean but was several hundred miles south-southeast of Hawaii and posed no threat to the islands, forecasters said Tuesday. Hurricane Iona is one of two major weather systems in the central Pacific Ocean.