Rainfall Risk for U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN — A tropical wave will cross the region later today and tonight promoting variable and unstable weather with shower and thunderstorm development across the region. As the day…
NWS Forecasts ‘Squally Weather’ With Passing of Tropical Wave
SAN JUAN — A tropical wave moved westward towards the region on Monday night and could cause squally weather this morning, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters expect the strongest…
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Stay Out of the Water! NWS Warns of Life-Threatening Rip Currents
SAN JUAN — Strong thunderstorms capable of producing strong winds continue across the local waters. The interaction between a vigorous tropical wave propagating westward across the eastern and central Caribbean…
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Tropical Wave and Trough To Bring ‘Excessive Rain Event’ To USVI, Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN — The interaction between a vigorous tropical wave propagating westward across the eastern Caribbean region and a developing weak upper-level trough to the west of the local islands…
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Tropical Wave Approaches Puerto Rico and Drought-Stricken U.S. Virgin Islands
SAN JUAN — A strong tropical wave is approaching our region, moving westward at 10 to 15 knots. Layered precipitable water imagery at the lower levels show dry air within…
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Tropical Storm Cindy Moves West; Bret’s Gone, Gone, Gone
SAN JUAN (Reuters) — Tropical Storm Bret dissipated as of the 5:00 p.m. advisory on Saturday, after first passing Aruba. The remnants of Bret were 160 miles west-northwest of the northern…
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Tropical Storm Bret Swirled Near St. Vincent; Tropical Storm Cindy Sweeps North
SAN JUAN (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret swirled close to St. Vincent late Thursday as it began pushing into the eastern Caribbean, where islands were shut down to brace for…
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Tropical Storm Bret Could Still Bring Needed Rain To U.S. Virgin Islands
SAN JUAN — Despite Tropical Storm Bret's current center distance well south of local islands, indirect impacts from Bret are affecting or are expected to affect the region today into…
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Tropical Storm Cindy forms behind Bret in an early and aggressive start to hurricane season
SAN JUAN (AP) — Tropical Storm Cindy has formed behind Tropical Storm Bret, in the first case of two storms in the tropical Atlantic in June since record keeping began,…
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Tropical Depression Four Forms On The Heels of Tropical Storm Bret In The Atlantic
SAN JUAN —What was named Invest 93L has strengthened into Tropical Depression Four over the central tropical Atlantic, following on the heels of Tropical Storm Bret, which developed earlier this week and is…