Tropical storm Jerry formed on Tuesday on tropical waters in the central Atlantic Ocean, said National Hurricane Center. It is the 10th named Storm of the Hurricane season 2025.
The newly developed system was far from the land when the Hurricane Center published its first opinion for Jerry at 11 a.m. he. The forecasters said that the storm was more than 1,300 miles in the east-east of the north-oneward islands, the Caribbean chain east of Puerto Rico which begins with the Virgin Islands and extends to Guadeloupe.
Jerry had maximum sustained winds of 50 MPH while he followed west at 23 MPH across the ocean open Tuesday evening, according to the forecasters. It was expected to strengthen regularly in the coming days and ended up becoming a hurricane.
A tropical storm watch was in force for the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Barthelemy, Saint Martin and Sint Maarten.
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On his forecasting track, Jerry should be close or north of the Northern Leewards on Thursday or Friday, the Hurricane Center said. Although the storm is not currently supposed to shoot land, the swells it generates will likely reach the islands on Thursday, causing current surfing and rip currents, according to the latest opinion.
It should bring up to 4 inches of rain in the downwind, said the Hurricane center, including the risk of sudden flood.
Jerry has developed on several Atlantic storm systems, including HUMBERTO HUMBERTO And Hurricane Imeldawho emerged at the end of September. The concerns so that the two can strike the Bermuda briefly circulated, but only Imelda finally brushed the island’s coast as a category 2 oil, before weakening quickly by leaving the ocean.
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Humberto and Imelda also threatened the Southeast of the United States with destructive surfing, causing multiple coastal houses in the external banks of North Carolina collapse.
It was relatively Quiet season of hurricaneswhich generally takes place every year from June 1 to November 30 in the Atlantic. While Jerry is the 10th named Storm this year, one of the other nine – Chantal – actually made land in the United States
When the current season has started, a perspective Released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that between 13 and 19 named storms would be formed in the Atlantic, with up to nine hurricanes and up to five reinforcing in powerful category 5 storms. But, over the months, Noaa revised her perspectives In August to predict that 13 to 18 named storms would form, including five to nine hurricanes.