Excessive Heat Warnings in effect for today

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SAN JUAN — 🏜️ A prominent Saharan Air Layer will reach the islands later today prompting hazy skies and decreased air quality with pulses continuing to arrive through Sunday.

🌡️Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories will be in effect from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. AST.

🌧️⛈️Showers will continue moving across windward sectors during the morning with afternoon shower and thunderstorm development forecast mainly over the interior to northwestern Puerto Rico, as well as possibly downwind of El Yunque. Troughs will continue to influence the local weather but will gradually weaken and move away.

⏳A tropical wave will bring additional moisture and instability Friday through Saturday.

🌬️🌊Breezy east to southeast winds will be present and continue into the weekend, promoting more choppy seas.

No tropical cyclone formation is expected over the next seven days.

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.