Hurricane Erin downgraded to Category 3 as tropical storm warning issued for Turks and Caicos

Hurricane Erin forces evacuations in the US, but expected to stay offshore after hitting the Caribbean

The year's first Atlantic hurricane, Erin, reached a dangerous Category 5 status Saturday with 160 mph (260 kph) winds before weakening. It is expected to remain a large hurricane into midweek.

How Hurricane Erin Made History Without Even Making Landfall

Within just 24 hours, Erin went from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 5. Here’s how that happened.

Watch Hurricane Erin reach Category 5 strength in a blaze of lightning

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite captured images of Hurricane Erin as it developed in the Atlantic and then rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm.

Erin stuns as a weekend Category 5, to bring life-threatening surf to the eastern US seaboard this week

Hurricane Erin dazzled forecasters over the weekend, putting on a spectacular show of strength rarely observed, becoming only the 43rd Atlantic-basin Category 5 hurricane on record and tying Camille in 1969 for the 4th earliest-forming Category 5 ever recorded.

Graphic Truth: 100 Years of Category 5+ Hurricanes in North America

Hurricane Erin intensified quickly over the weekend, becoming a Category 5 storm packing wind speeds of 160 miles per hour. As the week begins, Erin, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, has dropped to Category 4 and is threatening the East Coast with high winds, heavy rains, and rough surf. If recent years are a measure of what’s to come, Erin could be the first of several major storms this season. Here’s a look at how the number of…

Hurricane Erin’s wild ride: from Cat 1 to Cat 5 and back down (and up) again

Hurricane Erin started out as a Category 1 storm, grew into a Cat 5, and is currently back to a Cat 3, but is growing again in the Atlantic, near the Bahamas