Tropical storm turns into Hurricane Erin as it approaches Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands | US weather
Friday, a tropical storm accelerated to become the hurricane Erin in the middle of the morning, while it approached Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, causing heavy rains which could cause floods and landslides on its way to become a major of the Hurricane of the Atlantic.
The huge storm swirled through the Caribbean and should finally go to Florida, picking up speed on the hot water of the ocean, before finally moving away from the American continent.
The first hurricane of the Atlantic season 2025 drove west / northwest to 18 MPH (29 km / h) Friday afternoon, with winds reaching maximum speeds of around 75 MPH (121 km / h), a category 1 hurricane. It should become a major hurricane on Sunday morning.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) of Miami reported that X Erin, the fifth named Storm of the Hurricane season of the Atlantic, was several hundred kilometers east of the Nordic Islands, with maximum sustained winds of 70 MPH.
It was expected to strengthen in a hurricane by Friday early in the early afternoon, but reached the designation a little earlier, while it was approaching the Northeast Caribbean, encouraging forecastists to warn any floods and landslides, and strengthen in a major category 3 late storm this weekend.
The NHC warned against the strengthening of the storm in a category 3 hurricane, providing possible floods and landslides.
The forecuingist of the Private Sector Accreweather went further. “Erin should explode into a powerful category 4 hurricane while it moves through very hot waters in the open Atlantic.
Storm watches have been issued for Anguilla and Barbuda, St Martin and St Barts, Saba and St Eustatius and St Maarten, with torrential rain forecasts to start Friday in Antigua and Barbuda, the American and British Virgin Islands, and the southern and east parts of the American territory of Puerto Rico, east of the Dominican Republic and Haïche.
Up to 4 inches (10 cm) of rain are expected in the region, with isolated totals up to 6 inches, depending on the NHC. The forecasters also warned of dangerous swells.
“There is still an uncertainty about the impacts that Erin could bring to parts of the Bahamas, the east coast of the United States and the long-range Bermuda,” NHC said on Friday.
Michael Lowry, a hurricane specialist and a storm overhang expert, told the Associated Press that E derin should possibly take a pointed turn to the northeast which would put him on a path between the United States and the Bermuda.
“Next week’s forecasts are still maintaining the future hurricane in complete safety in the eastern continent in the United States,” he said.
Erin formed from a group of showers and thunderstorms that left the African coast last week, becoming a tropical rain storm near the Cabo Verde islands and pouring up to 8 inches of rain in five hours. Televisão África reported that at least six people died, with more missing, after sudden floods.
Accuweather predicted that Ecrin would create surf currents and tear dangerous on the east coast of the United States next week, with waves reaching up to 15 feet in North Carolina.
