Hurricane Erin is strengthening at the “very powerful” category 5 storm in the Caribbean
Hurricane Erin exploded on a category 5 storm in the Caribbean on Saturday on Saturday, moving quickly from a tropical storm in a single day, the American National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Although the compact hugs center should not hit land, it threatens to pour flood rains over the Northeast Caribbean as it continues to grow.
The first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic, Erin went from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. Until the end of Saturday morning, its maximum sustained winds have more than doubled at 255 km / h.
Mike Brennan, director of the NHC in Miami, said that Erin had become a “very powerful hurricane”. He said that his winds had won 96 km / h of intensity in about nine hours on Saturday.
“We expect to see Erin Peak here in relatively soon intensity,” said Brennan in an online briefing.
The NHC said that Erin should weaken somewhat late on Saturday or early Sunday when the storm meets shear in the wind and possibly absorbed dry air. However, the forecasters predict that there will remain a major hurricane until the middle of the week.
The hurricane was located 180 kilometers north of Anguilla at 2 p.m. Saturday, moving west at 26 km / h. The center of the storm was to stay at sea, passing 233 kilometers north of Puerto Rico, according to the US National Weather Service.
Erin was close enough to affect the neighboring islands. Tropical storm watches were issued for Saint-Martin, St. Barts and Saint-Maarten. The NHC warned that heavy rains in certain regions could trigger sudden floods, landslides and mud shifts.
Wind gusts of the tropical force are possible in the Turkish and caïcos islands and the Southeast Bahamas.
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Although compact size, with hurricane forces extending 45 kilometers from its center, the NHC said that ERIN should double, or even triple, in the coming days.
Erin could create powerful RIP currents off the East American Coast of Florida in the middle of the Atlantic next week, even with its eye forecasts to stay far off, said Brennan.
“Incredible for any period of the year”
Michael Lowry, specialist in hurricanes and survival experts, said that Erin had acquired a force at a rate that was “incredible for any period of the year, not to mention August 16”.
Lowry said only four other category 5 hurricanes had been recorded in the Atlantic at the latest on August 16.
The most powerful storms tend to train later in the year, the season of hurricanes generally culminating in mid-September.
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In October 2005, Hurricane Wilma went from a tropical storm to a category 5 storm in less than 24 hours, according to NHC’s advice from this moment. Wilma weakened in a category 3 hurricane before hitting Florida.
Including Erin, 43 Hurricens have reached category 5 status in the Atlantic, said Dan Pydynowski, senior meteorologist at Accuweather, a private forecasting company.
“They are certainly rare, although it marks the fourth consecutive year that we had one in the Atlantic basin,” said Pydynowski about the hurricanes in category 5. The conditions necessary for hurricanes to reach this force include very hot ocean water, little or no shear of the wind and to be far from the land, he said.
Scientists have linked a rapid intensification of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean to climate change. Global warming means that the atmosphere contains more water vapor and increases the temperatures of the ocean. The warmer waters give fuel to hurricanes to release more rain and strengthen more quickly.
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Storms that accelerate so quickly complicate forecasts for meteorologists and make government agencies plan to plan emergencies. Hurricane Erick, a storm of the Pacific who led to the earth on June 19 in Oaxaca, Mexico, also strengthened quickly, dubbing of intensity in less than a day.
Erin is the fifth named Storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season, which takes place from June 1 to November 30. It is the first to become a hurricane.
The 2025 hurricane season should be unusually occupied. The forecasts provide six to 10 hurricanes, with three to five reaching a major status with winds of more than 177 km / h.
People asked to follow the storm
In San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, inhabitants and tourists worked, exercised and bought on Saturday as usual. The restaurants were occupied and despite the warnings to avoid the beaches, people could be seen in the water at Ultimo Trolley and Ocean Park Beachs. Parents, however, prevented their children from swimming.
Sarahi Torres and Joanna Cornejo, visiting San Juan de California for a bad rabbit concert, said they had decided to go to the beach and wade in the water because the sky seemed calm.
“Time looked good, so we came out,” said Torres.
The American government has deployed more than 200 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies in Puerto Rico as a precaution. The secretary of Porto Rico, the housing secretary, Perez Pena, said that 367 shelters had been inspected and ready to open if necessary.
Meanwhile, Bahamas officials said they had prepared public shelters as a precaution by urging people to follow the hurricane.
“These storms are very volatile and can make sudden changes in motion,” said Aarone Sargent, director general of the Bahamas disaster risk management authority.
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