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Peak window: August–October · Worst month: Sep
Not one season but a moving one. Early storms form close by, in the western Caribbean and the Gulf; from August the long-track storms off Africa run through the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico; by October the western Caribbean is making its own again, which is how Melissa reached Jamaica at Category 5 in late October 2025. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao sit south of the usual tracks and are rarely hit. After a direct strike the airport is often the last thing to reopen: Irma wrecked the terminal at St Maarten in 2017, and it took years to rebuild.
Monthly levels are an editorial summary of past seasons, not a forecast. For a specific flight, check the travel window against what is in force today.
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