NHC Monitors Tropical Wave Expected To Reach Windward Islands Today

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BRIDGETOWN — The National Hurricane Center continues to track a tropical wave that is expected to move through the Windward Islands later today.

In the western tropical Atlantic, a wave located about 100 miles east of the Windward Islands continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms, according to the NHC.

The associated shower activity and gusty winds are expected to spread across the Windward Islands later today.

Any development of this system should be slow to occur over the next day or so before the wave moves into unfavorable conditions over the eastern Caribbean Sea.

The NHC says that the tropical wave only has a 10 percent chance to form into a storm within the next 48 hours.

John McCarthy

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.