Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Category 4 Hurricane Erin prompts evacuations, states of emergency

Weather successful America: August 18, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

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Hurricane Erin's life-threatening impacts punctual North Carolina evacuations, states of emergency

Powerful Hurricane Erin restrengthened overnight and became an highly unsafe Category 4 hurricane arsenic it continued its travel crossed the Atlantic, prompting officials successful North Carolina to contented local states of exigency and forcing residents and visitors to evacuate immoderate areas.

While the hurricane volition apt enactment to the eastbound of the U.S., officials are informing of life-threatening surf and rip currents astatine beaches up and down the East Coast from Florida successful the Southeast done the mid-Atlantic, Northeast and New England this week.

Odds summation for adjacent tropical strategy down Hurricane Erin successful Atlantic Ocean's Main Development Region

Odds are expanding that a tropical strategy volition make down Hurricane Erin successful the Atlantic Ocean's Main Development Region wrong the adjacent week. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) tagged an country to ticker successful the tropical Atlantic that has a mean accidental of improvement implicit the adjacent 7 days.

The NHC is tracking a ample radical of disorganized thunderstorms disconnected the seashore of Africa, which volition brushwood favorable conditions for improvement arsenic those storms determination westbound crossed the Atlantic toward the Caribbean islands.

Watch this: Hurricane Hunters alert into Hurricane Erin's eye

Hurricane Erin became the archetypal large hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season implicit the weekend. The almighty tempest rapidly intensified from a Category 1 hurricane to a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph successful a substance of hours.

This unthinkable video shared by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron shows a Hurricane Hunter unit flying into the oculus of Hurricane Erin arsenic the tempest spun crossed the Atlantic Ocean implicit the weekend. These unsafe missions assistance to supply captious accusation to the National Hurricane Center to assistance amended forecasts.

Watch: Hurricane Hunters alert into Hurricane Erin's eye

Check retired this unthinkable video shared by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron showing the unit flying into the oculus of Hurricane Erin arsenic the tempest spun crossed the Atlantic Ocean. These unsafe missions assistance to supply captious accusation to the National Hurricane Center to assistance amended forecasts.

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