Tropical Storm Rina is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone by Thursday morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory on Wednesday.

At 200 PM EDT, the center of Tropical Depression Eighteen was located by weather radars from Cuba and Grand Cayman near latitude 21.8 North, longitude 82.4 West.

Ireland is battening down the hatches as it prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Ophelia early Monday morning.

Dutch flagship carrier KLM has become the first major airline to announce a service resumption date at St. Maarten's Princess Juliana Airport.

American Airlines and Caribbean regional carrier Seaborne will resume flights to St. Croix on Thursday. Meanwhile, commercial air service has resumed to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

A tropical cyclone in the northwestern Caribbean Sea has been upgraded to a named storm, Tropical Storm Nate. The system is likely to become a hurricane in the next three days and could hit the northern Gulf Coast on Sunday morning, forecasters say.