An area west of Mexico is being monitored for a possible tropical storm or hurricane next week as a storm-sparking pulse moves across the Pacific Ocean.

Of those storms, the federal weather agency forecasts that six to 10 will be hurricanes — with three to five of them major. NOAA’s Atlantic hurricane outlook was released during a news conference Thursday, 10 days before the June 1 start of the season.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast a range of 13 to 19 total named storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November.