Category 4 Hurricane Erin Moves Past Northern Caribbean Islands But Not Forecast To Hit Land
San Juan, Porto Rico (AP) – Hurricane It exploded in power and there was a big storm in the Atlantic waters just north Caribbean On Saturday, it rises rapidly from a tropical storm on a single day.
Erin, the first Atlantic Hurricane of 2025, reached the Category 5 status before the National Hurricane Center in Miami, before a little weakening and a category 4 storm.
The storm center San Juan was located about 150 miles (235 kilometers) of Porto Riko and was going to the west at a speed of 24 km / h.
Although the center of the hurricane was not expected to hit the land, he threatened to pour floods to the islands in the region.
Mike Brennen, Director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said that Erin grew to a “very powerful hurricane ve and won 60 miles / hour in about nine hours.
Hurricane Center, Erin’in increased the wind curtain slowly began to weaken, he said. However, predictions estimated that there would be a hurricane until next week.
Erin flood is close enough to land to trigger landslides
According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm center in the north of Porto Rico was expected to stay in the sea.
However, St. Martin, St. Tropical storm clocks were released for Barts and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Hurricane Center, some regions of the heavy rain in the flash flood, landslides and mud shifts warned that.
In San Juan, the locals and tourists walked, exercised and shopped as usual. Restaurants were busy and despite warnings to avoid beaches, people can be seen in coastal waters. But parents protected their children from swimming.
Sarahí Torres and Joanna Cornejo, who visited California for a bad rabbit concert, said they decided to go to the beach and enter the water because the sky appears calm.
“The weather looked good, so we got out, Tor Torres said.
The US government assigned more than 200 employees to Porto Rico, one of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies. Porto Riko Housing Secretary Ciary Pérez Peña said that the 367 shelter was supervised and ready to open if necessary.
In the meantime, the authorities in the Bahamalar called on some public shelters as a precaution while inviting people to watch hurricane.
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Although compact, with the hurricane forces dating from the center 45 km (45 km), Erin was expected to double or even double.
Brennan said that although the storm estimation remains in the sea from Florida to the middle of the week from Florida to the middle of the week, Brennan said that although the storm estimation remains in the sea from Florida to the middle of the week, he said.
A ‘incredible’ race from Tropic Storm to Category 5
Hurricane expert and storm fluctuating expert Michael Lowry, Erin “aside from August 16, aside for any time of the year, incredibly gaining power, he said.
Lowry said that on August 16 or before, only four categories of 5 hurricanes were recorded in Atlantic.
The most powerful storms tend to occur later on the year, hurricane season usually peaked in mid -September.
In October 2005, the Wilma Hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center recommendations since then, has shown a category 5 from a tropical storm in less than 24 hours. Wilma weakened to a category 3 hurricane before hitting Florida. And in October 2007, the Hurricane Felix lasted more than a day to go from a tropical storm to the category.
Dan Pydynowski, senior meteorologist, a special estimated company, including Erin, said that there are 43 hurricanes in Atlantic that reached category 5 status in Atlantic.
“They are absolutely rare, but this would mark one in the fourth year in the Atlantic basin,” Pydynowski said. Among the conditions required for hurricanes to reach this kind of power, very hot ocean water involves very little or no wind cutting and being away from land.
Scientists, heating of the climate in connection with faster strengthened storms
Scientists connected Rapidly condensation of hurricanes Climate change in Atlantic. It causes global warming Atmosphere to keep more water vapor And he’s looking for ocean temperatures, and the warmer waters give hurricane fuel to open more rain and strengthen faster.
For meteorologists, it makes it difficult for the storms and state institutions to plan emergency situations that quickly increase forecasts. Hurricane ErickOn June 19, a Pacific storm, which was ashore in Oaxaca, Mexico, was rapidly strengthened and doubled the intensity in less than a day.
Erin is the fifth storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season from 1 June to 30 November. It is expected to be unusual. Six to 10 hurricanes are estimated for the season, which reaches three to five main status with more than 177 km / h wind.
Bynum reported from Savannah. Georgia. Associated Press writers Isabella O’Malley in Philadelphia and Ivelisse Rivera in San Juan contributed.
