A bright fireball exploded over the French Antilles at 00:40 UTC on April 27, 2020 (20:40 LT on April 26), lighting up the night skies between Martinique to as far north as Anguilla and as far west as Puerto Rico. The American Meteor Society (AMS) received seven...
April 30, 2020
Tropical Storm "Jerry" formed at 09:00 UTC on September 18 as the 10th named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. At the time, its center was located about 1 545 km (960 miles) E of Leeward Islands. Jerry had maximum sustained winds of 75 km/h (45...
September 18, 2019
Hurricane "Maria" is expected to rapidly intensify over the next 48 hours and slam into the Leeward Islands as a major, Category 3 or 4 hurricane late Monday, September 18 / early Tuesday, September 19, 2017 (local time). Maria is then expected to move...
September 18, 2017
Tropical Storm "Maria" formed in the Atlantic Ocean at 21:00 UTC on September 16, 2017 as the 13th named storm of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Maria is expected to be a Category 1 or 2 hurricane when it approaches the Leeward Islands early next...
September 16, 2017
Tropical Storm "Jose" formed September 5, 2017 over the open waters of Atlantic Ocean as the 10th named tropical cyclone of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Three days later, Jose is a powerful, Category 4 hurricane following almost the same path that...
September 08, 2017
Hurricane "Gonzalo" has become the second major hurricane of the 2014 Atlantic season, after Hurricane "Edouard". Gonzalo is currently moving away from the Virgin Islands and northern Leeward Islands, and targets Bermuda later this week. It has good
October 14, 2014
On August 22, 2011, Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season, was spinning over the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, lashing the islands with wind and rain. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite
August 24, 2011
Four areas in the Atlantic Ocean showing signs of potential tropical development and three of those systems now have a “medium chance” of soon growing into a tropical cyclone. One of those areas is a low pressure system centered more than 1,100 miles east of the
August 12, 2011