13 September, 2017
If it does manage to pick up strength over time, it may join the likes of Category 5 Hurricane Irma and Tropical Storm Jose.
The center of Tropical Storm Jose was located about 1,505 miles east of the Lesser Antilles.
A hurricane watch was issued for Antigua and Barbuda, devastated by Irma on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Hurricane Jose, now labeled a Category 1 hurricane and likely to be upgraded, follows closely behind Irma.
Florida is now preparing for the possibility of Irma.
Currently, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is helping Texas and Louisiana recover from Hurricane Harvey, noting the agency may only have enough money to get through Saturday as Irma barrels toward the USA coast. Now, in anticipation of Jose, Browne is considering evacuating residents. Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, made landfall in Cuba on Friday as a Category 5 storm.
Katia is forecast to turn southeastward in the next 24 hours and will move in that direction before turning southwest on Friday. Irma, on the other hand, is almost 400 miles wide.
Hurricane Irma, a Category Five storm further to the west, is now battering the Caribbean and threatening Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and south Florida. It's about 1,040 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, a collection of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
By Saturday afternoon, the hurricane is expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm. Jose is the 10th named storm of the season. It was shortly followed by a sixth, Hurricane Katia, which now hovers around the Southern Gulf of Mexico.
