Heavy rain hits U.S. Virgin Islands as Hurricane Erin charges nearby

ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS – Hurricane Erin is bringing dense rainfall to the U.S. Virgin Islands connected Saturday arsenic the Category 4 tempest moves closeby. 

Erin became the archetypal large hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane play connected Friday, proceeding to rapidly intensify into the weekend. 

While the hurricane is not expected to scope the U.S. Virgin Islands, its impacts are inactive being felt arsenic it brings beardown winds and dense rainfall to the land nation. 

"Those outer bands and breezy conditions – we whitethorn adjacent spot tropical storm-force winds present successful St. Thomas and areas each astir here, including Puerto Rico," said FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray, who is reporting from St. Thomas. 

HURRICANE ERIN UNDERGOES RAPID INTENSIFICATION INTO ATLANTIC'S FIRST MAJOR HURRICANE OF 2025  

Erin is besides expected to importantly interaction the eastbound U.S. 

While the hurricane volition not marque landfall, it is forecast to turn four- to five-fold implicit the adjacent respective days, starring to much vigor being enactment into the ocean, according to FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross. 

"Expanding Hurricane Erin volition make immense waves successful the unfastened water and impart vigor to the h2o that volition radiate toward the seashore successful the signifier of strong, long-period swells," Norcross said. "This vigor volition make almighty waves susceptible of eroding beaches and highly beardown and aggravated water currents."

He noted that these impacts volition archetypal beryllium felt successful Florida and passim the Southeast connected Tuesday and past marque their mode to the Northeast and New England by Thursday.