Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to become a hurricane late this week as it crawls through the northern Caribbean. Hurricane watches cover southwestern Haiti, including Port-au-Prince, and Jamaica,

Unlike other storms in this hurricane season, Melissa is likely to have a devastating effect on some of the most populated islands in the Caribbean.

Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to strengthen into a hurricane, threatening the northern Caribbean with massive rainfall and life-threatening flooding

The chances that the Atlantic's 10th named storm, Jerry, could form over the next few days increased again slightly on Tuesday morning.

According to a bulletin from the National Hurricane Center released Monday Oct. 20, "a tropical wave located over the eastern Caribbean Sea is producing a concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms. The system is moving westward at 15 to 20 mph toward the central Caribbean Sea and is expected to slow down over the next few days."

Tropical Storm Melissa lumbered through the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola — an island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical wave in the central Atlantic which is moving quickly toward the Caribbean. There also is a non-tropical system over the northwestern Atlantic — well away from Florida — that may develop into a tropical or subtropical storm over the next several days, according to AccuWeather.

The eighth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has formed. But another system likely to develop soon could affect the forecast.