With roofs torn off from over their heads and their streets swollen with floodwaters, islanders battered by Hurricane Irma will get little reprieve before yet another storm unleashes on them.

Hurricane Jose, the next Atlantic storm system, is not expected to make landfall, but it will bring wind and rain when it brushes by the northern Leeward Islands — the same ones just ravaged by Irma.

Now a Category 3 storm, Jose is a "major hurricane," according to the National Hurricane Center. As of 5 p.m. ET, it had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph and was moving west-northwest at 18 mph and was located about 590 miles east of the Lesser Antilles islands.

The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for the dual-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda — the first islands Irma raked through. Barbuda, the smaller of the two islands with roughly 1,800 residents, was particularly hard-hit by Irma.