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Potential Tropical Cyclone Five is expected to become the third hurricane of 2024 season

John McCarthy August 12, 2024

SAN JUAN — Potential Tropical Cyclone Five will become a depression early this morning and then will develop into Tropical Storm Ernesto.

As of the 8 a.m. advisory, PTC Five is moving west at 26 mph. It has maximum sustained winds of 30 mph.

It is located about 830 miles east-southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Tropical Storm Warning

St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla
Guadeloupe
St. Martin and St. Barthelemy
Sint Maarten

Tropical Storm Watch

British Virgin Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Vieques
Culebra

http://06j.731.mytemp.website/2024/08/tropical-storm-watch-flash-flood-watch-issued-for-the-usvi-and-puerto-rico

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)National Weather Service (NWS)

Last updated on August 12, 2024

John McCarthy

John McCarthy is primarily known for his investigative reporting on the U.S. Virgin Islands. A series of reports beginning in the 1990's revealed that there was everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling. Another report, following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, cited a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confidential overview that said that over 40 percent of the U.S. Virgin Islands public lives below the poverty line. The Virgin Islands Free Press is the only Caribbean news source to regularly incorporate the findings of U.S. Freedom of Information Act requests. John's articles have appeared in the BVI Beacon, St. Croix Avis, San Juan Star and Virgin Islands Daily News. He is the former news director of WSVI-TV Channel 8 on St. Croix.

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