USVI largely avoids damaging effects of Tropical Storm Ernesto – but can’t escape “hurricane” of WAPA’s inefficiencies afterwards. CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Some 50 hours after
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Hurricane Watch in effect for the Virgin Islands, Vieques and Culebra
SAN JUAN — A Hurricane Watch was issued for the Virgin Islands, Vieques and Culebra. Tropical Storm Ernesto is expected to intensify as it approaches
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Tropical Storm Ernesto drenches northeast Caribbean and takes aim at Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN — Tropical Storm Ernesto battered the northeast Caribbean today as it took aim at Puerto Rico, where officials shuttered schools and government agencies.
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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
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Tropical Storm Ernesto looms as a rain threat to the USVI and Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN — Tropical Storm Ernesto is forecast to move west-northwestward across or near the region as a tropical tropical storm by early Wednesday. A Tropical
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Russia sets Ukrainian nuclear power plant on fire
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that Russia has started a fire on the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest
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‘Fish storm’ expected to pass north of the USVI as a strong tropical cyclone
SAN JUAN — Tropical Cyclone Five is slowly approaching the Lesser and Greater Antilles and expected to build into a hurricane but only after it
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Folks from Martinique to Puerto Rico should start preparing for Hurricane Ernesto today, forecaster says
SAN JUAN — Shower and thunderstorm activity has increased since yesterday in association with a tropical wave located roughly midway between the Cabo Verde Islands
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Bahamas readies Caribbean’s next ‘debt-for-nature’ swap
NASSAU — The Bahamas is to join a growing trend where countries promise better protection of precious ecosystems in return for having their debts reduced.
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Tropical wave could approach the Greater Antilles by midweek
SAN JUAN — A tropical wave located over the tropical Atlantic several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing widespread disorganized showers
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