Hurricane Erin weakens to Category 3 as outer bands hit Puerto Rico
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Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The outer bands of Hurricane Erin are brushing North Carolina's Outer Banks, as beachgoers along most U.S. East Coast shores are being warned against swimming due to the risk of life-threatening surf and rip currents, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Wednesday night. Why It Matters Erin is the fifth named storm and first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season. Meteorologists at the NHC are also tracking two other disturbances out in the Atlantic following Erin that have a chance of cyclone formation. A red "No Swimming" flag is seen in Brighton Beach amid Hurricane Erin on August 20 in the Coney Island neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough. A red "No Swimming" flag is seen in Brighton Beach amid Hurricane Erin on August 20 in the Coney Island neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images What To Know Hurricane Erin, with sustained winds of up to 110 mph, was about 245 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, moving north at 14 mph, the NHC said in an advisory at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday. "Tropical storm conditions are expected over portions of the North Carolina Outer Banks and the Virginia coastline beginning in the next several hours," the center said. "Elsewhere along the mid-Atlantic and southern New England coast, wind gusts to tropical storm force are likely Thursday through early Friday. Tropical storm conditions are possible on Bermuda Thursday and Friday," the NHC added. The center said swells generated by Erin would affect the Bahamas, Bermuda, the U.S. East Coast and Atlantic Canada over the next several days. "These rough ocean conditions are expected to cause life-threatening surf and rip currents." The NHC issued a warning for a storm surge of up to 4 feet for the area between Cape Lookout and Duck, North Carolina, adding that the outer bands of Erin could also dump up to 1 inch of rain on the Outer Banks late Wednesday and into Thursday. Looking ahead, the center said it was keeping an eye on two other areas for tropical development in the Tropical Atlantic. One has a 70 percent chance of cyclone formation in the next seven days and the other a 40 percent chance. The NHC is monitoring two other areas in the Atlantic. The NHC is monitoring two other areas in the Atlantic. National Hurricane Center What People Are Saying Meteorologist James Spann posted to X on Tuesday: "Erin will pass between Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast tonight and tomorrow morning... from there it accelerates into the cooler water of the North Atlantic and becomes post tropical this weekend." AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski wrote: "The storm's powerful winds will generate massive seas offshore. These waves will travel toward the shoreline, producing pounding surf, frequent and strong rip currents and considerable beach erosion from Florida to Maine." What Happens Next The NHC issues regular updates on its website and social media channels.
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How climate change affects hurricanes like Erin
According to the National Hurricane Center, rapid intensification is an increase in a storm's sustained wind speeds of at least 35 mph in a 24-hour period. Between Friday morning and Saturday morning, Hurricane Erin's wind speeds increased by nearly 85 mph, peaking at 161 mph. Daniel Gilford, a climate scientist at Climate Central, a science communication nonprofit, likens hurricanes to the engine of a car. 'They need some fuel source in order to spin, and the fuel source is the ocean surface,' he said. 'So as the temperature of the ocean surface goes up, that adds more fuel that these storms can use to intensify.' For more than a century, greenhouse gases emitted by human activity have trapped heat inside the planet's atmosphere. A recent streak of record-breaking temperatures crowned 2024 as the hottest year on record. Advertisement By May of 2024, super marine heat waves had turned nearly a quarter of the world's ocean area into bath water, and this year's Atlantic Ocean remains warmer than average. This summer, forecasters anticipated a busier than usual Atlantic hurricane season because of this lingering heat, along with other regional factors. Erin is the first named storm to become a hurricane this year. As a storm moves across warm oceans, it gathers more fuel and becomes stronger. Because warmer air can hold more moisture, hurricanes in hotter conditions can also carry more rain. According to Climate Central's analysis of the storm, human-caused climate change made the warm water temperature around where Erin formed 90% more likely. The group's early estimate, using a statistical model developed by NOAA, also found that the extra heat could drive 50% greater damage, such as tidal erosion and flooding, to coastal areas. Other features of storms have been exacerbated by the warming planet, too. As polar regions melt and sea levels rise, Gilford said, the rising tidal baseline means that any coastal flooding from storms becomes correspondingly larger, too. During Hurricane Sandy, floods were 4 inches deeper than they would have been without sea level rise, according to a Climate Central paper published in the journal Nature. 'That doesn't sound like a lot, but 4 inches could be the difference between overtopping the bottom floor of a building or not,' he said. After intensifying, Hurricane Erin grew a second larger eyewall, which is the meteorological term for the thick ring of clouds at the cyclone's center. Hurricanes that go through an eyewall replacement cycle are larger in size but tend to have weaker wind speeds. Advertisement As of Wednesday afternoon, Hurricane Erin was 530 miles wide, an expanse that would smother New England. While the storm's strongest winds aren't expected to reach coastlines, the powerful waves and riptides that are generated will. Faster intensification makes eyewall replacement more likely, Kossin said. 'All of these behaviors are ultimately linked to the warm water that these storms are sitting on top of,' he said. 'The water is warm because the planet is heating up.' This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
