Regional Weather May Worsen This Week According to V.I. Government Officials

Two tropical waves are trying to form in the Caribbean and dry air, Saharan dust or an upper low system could prevent a storm or delay the development, government officials alerted Virgin Islanders at Monday’s Government House press briefing.

“Right now there’s a tropical wave, a normal tropical wave moving across the Atlantic towards the Leeward Islands and the Greater Antilles. It’s called an area of disturbance over the central tropic Atlantic Ocean. It’s expected to interact with an approaching tropical wave in the next couple of days. We anticipate it coming to our neck of the woods, so to speak, probably Wednesday night, Thursday. According to the National Weather Service in Puerto Rico, it will be primarily a rain and wind event. We’re expecting two to four inches of rain,” Daryl Jaschen, executive director of the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency, said. “It won’t be anything other than a rain event.

Jaschen said the Emergency Operations Center, comprising government agencies, is paying attention. Businesses are being informed of upcoming bad weather and information has been dispersed on the radio and through the National Weather Services and FEMA.