Sunshine and a few clouds with a shower in spots this morning, high 80

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📅 Monday, December 29, 2025

☀️Sunny, cool, and breezy — perfect day for outdoor plans!

Temperatures in the low 80s with a light breeze make it feel great outside. 🌴🌬️

🚫🌊 But don’t let the sunshine fool you.

Beach conditions remain dangerous. This is a look-but-don’t-swim kind of day, especially along exposed beaches. Stay out of the water.

📅 Monday, December 29, 2025

Another sunny day does NOT mean safe beaches. 🌊☀️

⚠️ High-risk beaches are NOT safe for swimming.

Life-threatening rip currents continue due to pulses of northerly swells, and they don’t care how strong of a swimmer you are.

👉 Stay out of the water at high-risk beaches.

👉 Don’t become another statistic.

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.