Hurricane Erin bringing life-threatening surf, rip currents
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Hurricane Erin has reintensified into a Category 4 storm on Aug. 18, according to the National Hurricane Center. See where Erin is headed.
Hurricane Erin is deemed a potential threat to Bermuda as a Category 4 storm, the Bermuda Weather Service warned. According to the BWS 6am advisory, the storm was upgraded from Category 3 overnight
Erin is the fifth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season and the first hurricane, as well as the first major hurricane. The NHC has warned that the system, a Category 4 hurricane at the time of writing, could bring "life-threatening" surf and rip currents across the U.S.' Eastern Seaboard this week.
The first hurricane of 2025 in the Atlantic continued to track north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Sunday morning, hitting those islands with heavy rain and gusty winds. Erin is expected to move away from the islands later today and begin to curve more to the north.