National Weather Service – Virgin Islands Free Press

JUST IN TIME! Crews Install New Radar Station In Puerto Rico Serving Virgin Islands

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] SAN JUAN -- A new radar has risen from the ground nine months after Hurricane Maria tore it and thousands of other structures down to their…

John McCarthy June 20, 2018

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HAVING A ‘SWELL’ TIME IN PARADISE: Thirty Foot High Waves Hit Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] SAN JUAN — Waves nearly 30 feet high from a U.S. winter storm slammed into Puerto Rico today, forcing authorities to evacuate dozens of families and…

John McCarthy March 5, 2018

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Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Faces Brief Torrential Rain Showers As Invest 92L Tries To Develop To The North

[ad name="HTML-68"] CHRISTIANSTED -- Regardless of whether the Atlantic Basin’s next tropical depression forms in the coming days, downpours will stream across the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico still enduring…

John McCarthy October 15, 2017

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LAST THING WE NEED: A ‘Weak Disturbance’ Invest 92L Has Formed East Of The Virgin Islands And Puerto Rico

INVEST 92L: 2017 VIRGIN ISLANDS FREE PRESS STORM TRACKER CHRISTIANSTED -- The last thing the Virgin Islands needs now is more bad weather. But there is a weak tropical disturbance…

John McCarthy October 14, 2017

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BRACE FOR IMPACT! Beaten Hard By Irma, The Virgin Islands Hopes To Survive Yet Another Knockout Blow … This Time From Hurricane Maria

[ad name="HTML-68"] CHRISTIANSTED -- Another Category 5 storm is making no mistake about where the U.S. Virgin Islands are. Catastrophic Hurricane Maria, fresh off of clobbering Dominica last night, continued…

John McCarthy September 19, 2017

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Powerful Hurricane Maria Forecast To Pass Within 10 Miles Of St. Croix Early Wednesday Morning As A Category 4 Storm

[ad name="HTML-68"] CHRISTIANSTED -- A hurricane watch was issued for the territory on Sunday as Maria left residents of Irma-battered St. Thomas and St. John racing to prepare for yet another…

John McCarthy September 18, 2017

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National Hurricane Center Projects That Hurricane Maria Will Pass South of St. Croix As A Category 3 Storm On Wednesday Morning

HURRICANE MARIA'S PROJECTED TIME PATH THRU THE CARIBBEAN REGION AS OF SUNDAY. [ad name="HTML-68"] SAN JUAN -- Tropical Storm Maria formed Saturday in the western Atlantic Ocean, prompting a hurricane…

John McCarthy September 17, 2017

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NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER: Invest 96-L & Tropical Depression 14 Are Strengthening In The Eastern Atlantic

[ad name="HTML-68"] MIAMI -- As the territory continues its slow recovery from Hurricane Irma, forecasters are keeping an eye on two systems in the Atlantic Ocean that may become the next…

John McCarthy September 16, 2017

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Tropical Depression 14 Forms in The Eastern Atlantic, NHC Says 2 Storms Merit Watching

SAN JUAN -- As Tropical Storm Jose continues to circle in the Atlantic, posing minimal threat to land, a pair of rough-weather patches off the African coast, one now a tropical depression,…

John McCarthy September 15, 2017

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National Hurricane Center Says That It Is Watching Two Tropical Waves Coming Off The Coast Of Africa That Could Develop Into Bigger Storms

[ad name="HTML-68"] MIAMI -- The National Hurricane Center said that it was watching two tropical waves as they came off the coast of Africa. The first tropical wave is located…

John McCarthy September 14, 2017