ORLANDO, Fla. _ Tropical Storm Jerry is on a path to pass near Bermuda on Tuesday prompting a tropical storm warning for the island territory, the National Hurricane Center said.
As of 8 a.m. Monday, Jerry is located 355 miles away from Bermuda maintaining maximum sustaining winds of 65 mph while heading north-northwest at 7 mph, the NHC said.
Forecasters are expecting Jerry to turn northeast by Tuesday putting the center of the storm on a path to pass near the island by Tuesday night.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 175 miles and will be likely to impact Bermuda, which dealt with the effects of Hurricane Humberto earlier this week. Forecasters project 1 to 3 inches of rainfall.
Jerry is also producing ocean swells and riptide conditions for the coasts of Bermuda as well as Puerto Rico and the northern Leeward Islands.
The storm's future is expected to fizzle after five days, according the NHC.
"The cyclone could be close to dissipating around day 5 due to continuation of the shear and cold water if the latest global models are correct, so the forecast is lowered at that time" said NHC hurricane specialist Eric Blake.
Meanwhile, the season's 11th named storm, Tropical Storm Karen, formed on Sunday and moved into the Southern Caribbean Sea bringing rain to the Windward Islands. Its long-term forecast has it headed north near Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by Tuesday, and then out of the Caribbean and back into the Atlantic.
The National Hurricane Center also is tracking Tropical Depression 13 expected to become Tropical Storm Lorenzo today and Hurricane Lorenzo later this week.
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