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Alerts & island status

Official NWS alerts, WAPA power status, and earthquake and tropical context — each stream with its own source and age.

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Official advisories

Active alerts

Official NWS land and marine alerts in effect for St. John take priority over any guidance on this site.

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No active official alert is cached right now. This is not a guarantee of calm — during severe weather, check official sources directly.

Power & water

Power on St. John

Current incidents shown on WAPA’s first-party outage map.

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Customers shown without power0
Mapped incidents
0
Verified incidents
0
Crew assigned
Not shown

Updated Sep 26, 5:36 PM AST. Zero means no St. John incident is currently displayed on the map—not proof that every property has service.

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Water advisories. Boil-water notices and water-system advisories are not yet a structured live feed here. During an event, confirm directly with WAPA and DPNR.Open WAPA ↗

Seismic activity near St. John

Earthquakes that could be felt here

USGS events close or strong enough to plausibly be felt on St. John — M3+ within 100 miles, M4+ within 200 miles, M5+ region-wide. A result is context, not a safety forecast.

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M 3.2

25 miles SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico

Sat, Sep 26, 11:03 AM AST · 46 mi from St. John · 7.3 mi deep · reviewed

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M 3.3

83 miles NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

Tue, Sep 22, 3:18 PM AST · 95 mi from St. John · 7.7 mi deep · reviewed

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Source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · feed fresh· full regional M3+ list on the weather page →

Atlantic tropics

Tropical outlook

National Hurricane Center current storms and the Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook — never presented as an all-clear.

Atlantic hurricane season is in progress (June 1 – November 30) — check the outlook daily.

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NHC outlook, verbatim

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Active Systems: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Gonzalo, located to the north of the Cabo Verde Islands, and on Tropical Depression Fay, located well to the west-southwest of the Azores.

Central Subtropical Atlantic: A surface trough of low pressure located several hundred miles to the southeast of Bermuda is currently producing an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Environmental conditions appear somewhat favorable for gradual development of this system as it moves northward this weekend and then turns eastward by the early to middle portion of next week. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.

Tropical depression Fay
From St. John
≈ 1531 mi NE of St. John
Max winds
30 kt (35 mph)
Pressure
1009 mb
Position
29.8°N 43.9°W
Moving
S at 2 kt

Updated Sat, Sep 26, 5:00 PM AST

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Potential tropical cyclone Gonzalo
From St. John
≈ 2704 mi E of St. John
Max winds
35 kt (40 mph)
Pressure
1005 mb
Position
19.3°N 23.3°W
Moving
NNW at 7 kt

Updated Sat, Sep 26, 5:00 PM AST

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Areas of showers and thunderstorms

Atlantic basin · area of disturbed weather≈ 785 mi NE of St. John2-day formation: 10% (Low) · 7-day: 20% (Low)Issued Sat, Sep 26, 1:40 PM AST
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