Posted on 08/17/2025 2:38:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The powerful storm rapidly intensified over the weekend, going from a Category 1 hurricane to a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph in a matter of hours. Ports were closed and flights were canceled, impacting travel, and local officials told residents to prepare for potentially life-threatening impacts from Erin as it brushed by the Caribbean islands.
Hurricane Erin to bring life-threatening beach conditions to Bahamas, US coast FOX Weather Meteorologist Jane Minar provides the latest forecast information for Hurricane Erin. As Erin moves west-northwest, tropical storm conditions are expected in Turks and Caicos and the southeast Bahamas over the next 24 hours. Erin is also forecast to bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to the eastern U.S. Coast later in the week.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Hurricane Erin is likely to restrengthen again as it passes east of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeast Bahamas on Monday after lashing the Caribbean with damaging winds and flooding rain. Eventually, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Erin’s impacts will spread to the entire U.S. East Coast with life-threatening beach conditions later this week.
Hurricane Erin, which became the first major hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, is no doubt going to be a storm for the history books.
The powerful storm rapidly intensified over the weekend, going from a Category 1 hurricane to a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph in a matter of hours.
Ports were closed and flights were canceled, impacting travel, and local officials told
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I hope Erin makes the turn to the north. I am in Central Florida and Hurricane Ian did a number on my property. Two huge oak trees were uprooted and many shingles ripped off my roof. Many days with out power. I patched the roof and then last year got hit by hurricane Milton. No trees lost, but my roof was torn up badly and gaain, many days without power. I had a metal roof put on last fall, but don’t want to test it so soon.
It’s Category 3 right now. That’s something, sure. But they’re trying to say it’s the end of the world.
Yes, typical Weather Channel-ish fear porn. This is the typical August “fish storm”….hard right turn north and the. Out to the North Atlantic.
I feel you. We got hit with Idalia, Debby AND Helene! All within a 13 month period. We are still cleaning up our property!
Erin is going to be a fish storm by consistant forecast models over the last few days.
It may move closer to the east coast, though, so parts of the NE coast is going to get battered with high waves and rip currents.
There is though, a potential system of concern that follows erin, that has been showing up in models, but is so far out, model runs have it going all over the place.
It’s showing up as a cat 4 storm making landfall at the end of the month. On different forecast it goes through the keys into the Gulf of America and hitting New Orleans, or it goes into the east coast anywhere from N Florida to North Carolina, and a few european models have it recurving out to sea.
The nhc is already showing that there’s something with a potential developement over the next week.
I am not done cleaning up either. I have been cutting down trees that are too close, but I still have several tall pine trees and one oak tree that could fall on my house or my neighbors houses.
I’d buy a cinder block house. That way I’d only need roof insurance.
I’m in a townhome a block from the beach in PB County. Concrete walls, ceilings, and roofs. Divosta built a ton of these places back in the mid-late 80’s.
I’ve been here nearly 35 years and have never seen a building damaged from wind or water. Just downed trees.
It’s still not expected to make landfall in the US although the POSSIBILITY cannot be ruled out.
Hurricane tracks are notoriously difficult to forecast. Far too many variables involved.
Hurricane Erin Is Getting BIGGER...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLwMtxjA4xs
No, no, no, let me.
It’s Trump’s fault!
Does this mean that all that garbage stacked up on Puerto Rico may get washed ashore in Miami?
Homestead...Andrew....
Uh ohhhh John Kerry and Greta are right, the ice caps will melt, Florida will be under water and this is the thousand year storm because we’re not sending money to paris.
There’s a lot of us in the same boat here in Florida. We just keep praying that we don’t get hit again for a long long time! I feel for those folks in NC and TN. Now that was a real nightmare for them
They keep saying Erin is going to turn right and run up the coast where it will blow out in the cold waters of the North Atlantic.
But what if it doesn’t. What if it turns a little and slams into the coast of North Carolina. Could Cape Hatteras survive a direct hit from a hurricane? What would happen inland if the barrier beach was blown completely away?
And if it happened on election eve to a blue state? Would the election go through? I keep thinking of a tsunami on the west coast. The dems are the kind who think ahead of if the state is red.
Erin is not incoming
What is incoming is Puerto Rico pols grifting on Erin’s landing
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