The fifth named storm, first hurricane, first major hurricane, [a] and first category 5 hurricane of the 2025 atlantic hurricane season, erin developed from a tropical wave on august 11, while passing westward over cape verde. Location, spaghetti models, forecasts and more track erin with our collection of maps here. Hurricane erin slowly moved northward on tuesday, triggering rough surf and dangerous rip currents along the east coast that have already resulted in dozens of water rescues, swimming bans, and. (ap) — hurricane erin battered north carolina’s outer banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm. After a relatively quiet start to the atlantic hurricane season, erin became the first hurricane of the year in the atlantic basin on aug.15 and rapidly intensified into a major category 5 storm the following day. Erin remains a large category 1 hurricane as it races further away from the u.s
Coastline about 400 miles south of nova scotia. Erin has reached warmer water that will allow the storm to strengthen into a hurricane late this week.
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