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

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

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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.