Tropical Storm Fiona is the most significant tropical system to impact the Caribbean so far this Atlantic hurricane season.
forecasters warned that the storm's strong winds and heavy rains would begin impacting the northeastern Caribbean by Friday night. There is the potential for Fiona to become a hurricane after turning northward next week, and one scenario could bring the storm near the United States East Coast.
Tropical storm watches were upgraded to warnings for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, on Friday. Forecasters warned that those islands could get slammed with heavy rainfall amounts as high as 10 inches, which would pose a significant flood and mudslide risk. Despite Fiona's moderate wind intensity, there is every indication that the tropical storm will pack enough moisture to bring torrential downpours across the island of the northeastern Caribbean, with the heaviest rain likely where the terrain is the most mountainous in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Puerto Rico will feel the impacts of Fiona from Saturday through Sunday. From Sunday to Monday, Fiona will likely take a turn to the north and travel across Hispaniola and unleash flooding rain and gusty winds on the Dominican Republic and Haiti. A NOAA satellite image showed Tropical Storm Fiona churning over the Atlantic Ocean, moving westward toward the Caribbean Sea, on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022.
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