Tropical Storm Jerry has weakened near the northern Leeward islands while Subtropical Storm Karen forms in the North Atlantic.

The National Hurricane Center on Friday said Tropical Storm Jerry was dropping torrents of rain on the Caribbean’s northern Leeward Islands while Subtropical Storm Karen formed in the

The National Hurricane Center on Thursday said Tropical Storm Jerry was getting closer to the Caribbean’s northern Leeward Islands, but was expected to shift away into the open Atlantic. As of the NHC’s 2 p.

Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas has replaced its visit to St. Maarten with an overnight call in Puerto Rico to avoid Tropical Storm Jerry.

A robust tropical wave – a ripple in east-to-west flowing trade winds at about 10,000 feet resembling an ocean wave – plodding through the central Atlantic this week is poised to develop into a tropical depression or named storm.

Jerry became the tenth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season on Tuesday. The latest storm may bring a glancing blow of rain and wind to the northeastern Caribbean islands later in the week.

The Leeward Islands, including the U.S. Virgin Islands, should monitor the progress of a weather system moving across the Atlantic, as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has given the disturbance — designated Invest 95L — an 80 percent chance of development within 48 hours and a 90 percent chance within seven days.