trend. hurricane bud picking up steam as it closes in on southwestern mexico. bud is now the earliest major hurricane on record in the eastern pacific. a category 3 storm with 115-mile-an-hour winds. there's also lots of action in the atlantic ocean. abc's sam champion has more on that and what's in store for the coming months. >> reporter: the atlantic hurricane season is supposed to begin june 1st. but tropical storm alberto jumped the gun last week churning up the waters off south carolina. and now a tropical disturbance could turn into tropical storm burl over the weekend. two named atlantic storms haven't happened this early in 104 years. add in hurricane bud on the west coast of mexico, and we're seeing something completely new. >> this is the first time in recorded history that we had a preseason named storm in both the atlantic and eastern pacific basins. >> reporter: despite all this early activity, noaa predicting a nearly normal hurricane season with 9 to 15 named storms,