Tropical Wave Has Low Chance of Formation, NWS Says

SAN JUAN — The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave with low formation chance (30%) in the next seven days.

A tropical wave is located just to the southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.

Some development of this system is possible later this week and into the weekend while it moves westward to west-northwestward over the tropical Atlantic.

Marine Weather Statement: Thunderstorms expected over the southern waters of Puerto Rico and the Anegada Passage.

* Storm formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent.
* Storm formation chance through seven days…low…30 percent.

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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.