Jerry formed in the Atlantic on the morning of Oct. 7, the season's 10th named storm, the National Hurricane Center said.Show Caption
Tropical Storm Jerry has formed in the Atlantic, with sustained winds of 45 mph, becoming the 10th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, according to the National Hurricane Center.Jerry is roughly 1,300 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands on the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea, the center said.Environmental conditions appear favorable for additional development, with warm waters and abundant moisture, and Jerry could become a hurricane by the evening of Oct. 8, the hurricane center said.So far this season, the Atlantic Ocean's hurricane basin has produced four hurricanes and five tropical storms.Jerry is moving quickly westward across the central tropical Atlantic at 24 mph.The center's forecast shows Jerry reaching wind speeds of 90 mph as it nears the Leeward Islands on Thursday night, Oct. 9, and Friday, Oct. 10. People there are urged to continue monitoring the storm's progress, because there is "uncertainty on how close" the center of the storm will get to the islands, the hurricane center said.Reconnaissance aircraft are scheduled to investigate the system on Wednesday, Oct. 8.In accordance with the models, the hurricane center's track shows Jerry is forecast to turn northward as it nears the Leeward Islands, then move off into the Atlantic, passing over or to the east of Bermuda, according to the center's forecast track.Even if it does whirl out into the Atlantic, Jerry could still send deadly and dangerous swells and hazardous surf and currents to the coast.Already this season, nine houses have collapsed along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in rough surf and damaging waves as a pair of hurricanes, Humberto and Imelda, stirred up the ocean well offshore.The hurricane center also is watching a disturbed area over the Bay of Campeche in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico that has a minimal chance of formation but is forecast to bring heavy rains to portions of Belize, the Yucatan Peninsula and southern Mexico this week.In the Eastern Pacific Ocean meanwhile, the basin is up to 16 named storms this season, including 10 hurricanes. Tropical Storm Octave (pronounced Oct-tayv), formerly a hurricane, managed a complete U-turn and is headed eastward again, but it's expected to dissolve into a depression by late in the week.Hurricane Priscilla is forecast to move along the western coast of Mexico, then make landfall along the Baja California coast by Friday, Oct. 10 as a tropical depression.Where are the Pacific storms?This forecast track shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its impacts, and the center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.This story has been updated to add new information.
