Jim A
Senior Insider
Ernesto on track to become hurricane while bringing life-threatening surf, flooding rain to Caribbean islands
The storm is forecast to cross the northern Leeward Islands overnight Monday and near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico sometime on Tuesday. Life-threatening surf and rip current conditions will b…
The NHC said a wind gust of 53 mph was reported in St. Barthelemy, and tropical storm conditions are expected in the Tropical Storm Warning area of the Leeward Islands over the next few hours, with the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico experiencing those conditions later on Tuesday.



