Monster Hurricane Erin continues to barrel across Atlantic bringing life-threatening impacts to Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - An eyewall replacement cycle is underway wrong Hurricane Erin arsenic the monster tempest continues to tube crossed the Atlantic portion bringing gusty winds and rainfall to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands aft rapidly intensifying into a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane implicit the weekend.

The archetypal large hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season rapidly intensified from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph wrong hours earlier the tempest began to suffer immoderate of its strength but remained highly unsafe arsenic it began to determination northbound of the Caribbean islands.

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As of the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Hurricane Erin remains a large Category 3 hurricane with winds of 125 mph arsenic the tempest continues to determination disconnected to the west-northwest astatine 14 mph.

Hurricane Erin is expected to proceed to determination disconnected to the west-northwest connected Sunday with a alteration successful guardant velocity earlier a gradual crook to the northbound connected Monday and Tuesday.

The halfway of Hurricane Erin is forecast to walk to the eastbound of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeast Bahamas connected Sunday nighttime and Monday.

Hurricane Erin is presently located much than 150 miles northbound of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and much than 300 miles to the east-southeast of Grand Turk successful the Turks and Caicos Islands, wherever a Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect.

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A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for the southeast Bahamas.

While the Caribbean islands were spared a nonstop deed from the catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Erin, conditions stay highly unsafe implicit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands arsenic outer bands lashed the portion with gusty winds and dense rain.

The NHC said those outer bands volition proceed to interaction the country connected Sunday, and forecast rainfall totals of 3-6 inches, with isolated totals of up to 8 inches, are expected.

Forecasters warned that locally "considerable flash and municipality flooding," arsenic good arsenic landslides and mudslides, are possible.

Squalls with upwind gusts to tropical storm-force could besides hap implicit portions of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico connected Sunday.

In addition, tropical tempest conditions are expected wrong the Tropical Storm Warning country successful the Turks and Caicos Islands starting Sunday night, with tropical tempest conditions imaginable successful the ticker country successful the southeast Bahamas aboriginal Sunday nighttime and connected Monday.

But it isn’t conscionable the relentless rainfall and upwind that could beryllium life-threatening.

Ocean swells generated by Hurricane Erin volition proceed to impact portions of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands implicit the adjacent fewer days.

How Bermuda is preparing for Hurricane Erin

Officials judge the land is acceptable to spell for impacts from the upwind during the workweek. Hurricane Erin is expected to walk betwixt North Carolina and Bermuda arsenic a large hurricane.

Massive swells volition dispersed to the Bahamas, Bermuda, the East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada during the aboriginal to mediate information of the upcoming workweek.

Those unsmooth conditions volition besides apt pb to life-threatening rip currents on East Coast beaches.

Will Hurricane Erin deed the U.S.?

Some of Hurricane Erin's impacts volition beryllium felt connected the East Coast from Florida to New England, though a nonstop deed isn't expected. 

Coastal communities should beryllium connected alert for unsafe surf conditions producing monolithic waves and deadly rip currents done adjacent week.

Such unsafe impacts could pb to beaches being closed and boaters should beryllium alert of the marine conditions, FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross said.

"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."