The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday forecast Tropical Storm Jerry to grow into a hurricane, but only after it swings past the Caribbean turning north into the Atlantic and avoiding a

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

Current models show Jerry taking a path similar to other hurricanes this year, curving to the north and staying away from Florida and the U.S. East Coast. AccuWeather forecasters said Jerry could bring a glancing blow of rain and wind to the northeastern Caribbean islands later in the week.

A new tropical storm could form in the Atlantic this week and continue the 2025 hurricane season’s backloaded burst of tropical activity. Even though fewer storms tend to form now, in the late-season, history has shown how devastating they can be, particularly since development areas shift closer to land.

"We believe that it has a good chance of becoming a tropical storm over the next few days,” one meteorologist told Newsweek.

According to the National Hurricane Center's 2 a.m. Thursday advisory, Tropical Storm Jerry is in the Atlantic Ocean, 560 miles east-southeast of the Northern Leeward Islands. Packing maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, it is tracking to the west-northwest at 21 mph.

An area of low pressure in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean is expected to form as a tropical depression within the next day, becoming Tropical Storm Jerry not long after, forecasters said Tuesday morning.