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. Erin has reached warmer water that will allow the storm to strengthen into a hurricane late this week. 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. It was a category 1 hurricane earlier friday as it churned over the atlantic off the central east coast (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. Hurricane erin has weakened to a category 1 storm after lashing north carolina's outer banks with rough waves and coastal flooding, and bringing a threat of dangerous waves and potentially deadly rip currents to the east coast
Here's how the news is developing. 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.
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