The National Hurricane Center is tracking two tropical waves in the eastern and central Atlantic Ocean, far from the U.S. coast.

Tropical Storm Podul has formed over waters north-northeast of Guam and is expected to approach the seas southeast of Taiwan next week, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. The 11th Pacific storm of this year developed at 2am over waters about 2,660km east of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan’s southernmost tip.