Jerry became the tenth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season on Tuesday. The latest storm may bring a glancing blow of rain and wind to the northeastern Caribbean islands later in the week.

Although Jerry will pass close by to several Caribbean islands this week – potentially as a hurricane – it will not be a problem for the mainland U.S.

A robust tropical wave – a ripple in east-to-west flowing trade winds at about 10,000 feet resembling an ocean wave – plodding through the central Atlantic this week is poised to develop into a tropical depression or named storm.

The National Hurricane Center on Friday said Tropical Storm Jerry was dropping torrents of rain on the Caribbean’s northern Leeward Islands while the season’s 11th named storm came in the form of Subtropical Storm Karen.

Most models have Invest 95L staying a safe distance away from the northeastern Caribbean and not impacting the United States.

Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas has replaced its visit to St. Maarten with an overnight call in Puerto Rico to avoid Tropical Storm Jerry.

It's too soon to tell exactly where the system might go, but forecasters said they expect it to take a turn to the northwest later this week.

Tropical Storm Jerry is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane in the Tropical Atlantic over the next day or so after emerging Tuesday as the 10th named storm of this still thriving hurricane season.