Hurricane Erin Downgrades to Category 4 Storm
(MENAFN) Hurricane Erin, which rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm earlier Saturday, has now weakened slightly to Category 4, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The agency noted that “On the forecast track, the center of Erin is expected to move just north of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico through Sunday and pass to the east of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas Sunday night and Monday.” Forecasters also cautioned that the storm's strength could vary in the coming days.
Erin’s escalation was exceptionally swift—it climbed from Category 1 to Category 5 in just over 24 hours. This rate of intensification ranks it among the fastest-strengthening hurricanes ever observed in the Atlantic, and it may be the earliest to reach such strength before September.
Though a direct landfall is not currently projected, Erin will skirt north of Puerto Rico and then veer north-northeast into open Atlantic waters, tracking between Bermuda and the eastern U.S. seaboard in the days ahead.
The NHC has issued a warning that the storm will produce hazardous surf and strong rip currents along the coastlines of the Bahamas, much of the US East Coast, and Atlantic Canada.
Erin was officially designated the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season on Friday.
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