SAN JUAN — The best chance for flooding rains in the next five-days may result from the passage of a tropical wave, now centered around 45ºW longitude, by Wednesday evening into Thursday, the National Weather Service said. Expect the highest impact over eastern Puerto Rico and the USVI, along with breezy and gusty conditions, according […]
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Tropical Wave Brings Much Needed Rain To USVI and Puerto Rico
FREDERIKSTED — The U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are experiencing periods of heavy showers and gusty winds this morning, especially to the east and south of San Juan and in the west of St. Croix. The National Hurricane Center says a tropical wave continues to produce a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms […]
NHC Monitors Tropical Wave Expected To Reach Windward Islands Today
BRIDGETOWN — The National Hurricane Center continues to track a tropical wave that is expected to move through the Windward Islands later today. In the western tropical Atlantic, a wave located about 100 miles east of the Windward Islands continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms, according to the NHC. The associated shower activity and […]
USVI and Puerto Rico Keeps A Wary Eye On Tropical Disturbance Moving Towards Windward Islands
MIAMI — The second named system of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season could form as soon as today, but it will not be impacting the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The National Hurricane Center reports Potential Tropical Cyclone Two is west-southwest of the northern tip of the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia. It currently has […]
Schools Close In Trinidad In Advance of First Hurricane of the 2022 Season
PORT OF SPAIN — Tropical storm warnings have been issued to several Caribbean island territories as a poorly defined disturbance is projected to become the first hurricane of 2022 by the end of the week. The National Hurricane Center’s 2 p.m. advisory today said heavy rains and tropical-storm-force winds are likely to begin late tonight […]
Tropical Storm Bonnie Continues To Trundle Towards The Caribbean
MIAMI — Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1, but doesn’t usually ramp up until July or August. But an unusually early tropical storm has a strong chance to develop next week in the “main development region” of the tropical Atlantic. The potential storm is already of interest to the Windward Islands, which mark the […]
Windward Islands Warily Watching Tropics With ‘Bonnie’ Brewing In Caribbean
MIAMI — A tropical depression or storm may develop in the eastern Atlantic and head toward the Windward Islands, then into the Caribbean Sea next week as the first month of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is currently monitoring an area of showers and thunderstorms – […]
NHC Watching One Tropical Wave In The Caribbean
MIAMI — Conditions in the Atlantic basin remained quiet today, with forecasters watching one tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center. There’s more activity in the eastern Pacific, which has already experienced Hurricanes Agatha and Blas. Tropical Depression Celia is forecast to become a tropical storm later […]
Parts of Puerto Rico and USVI To See Heat Indexes As High As 111
MIAMI — It’s been quiet in the Atlantic basin. How much longer that will last is unclear, but several forecasters don’t expect it to last much longer. Think end of June, first part of July. Maybe. The National Hurricane Center is monitoring Invest 93L over Nicaragua and Honduras and three tropical waves, according to the latest advisory […]
NHC Monitoring Area of Low Pressure In Caribbean Sea
MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center is monitoring an area of low pressure in the Caribbean Sea, along with four tropical waves in the Atlantic basin. “An area of low pressure is expected to develop by the middle part of this week over the southwestern Caribbean Sea,” the NHC said. “Some slow development of this system is possible while it […]