Ernesto on track to become hurricane while bringing life-threatening surf, flooding rain to Caribbean islands

Millions of people in the Caribbean are bracing for the wrath of Tropical Storm Ernesto as the fifth tropical storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season gets set to blast the region, including the US territories of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, with torrential rain, large and destructive surf and potentially life-threatening storm surge. The tropics have been becoming more active over the past few weeks with the development of Hurricane Debby, which made its first landfall in Florida, and then a second landfall in South Carolina as...