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Hurricane Erin was downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane aboriginal Sunday arsenic a tropical tempest informing was issued for the Turks and Caicos Islands and winds and dense rains whipped the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Erin, the archetypal Atlantic hurricane of 2025, reached Category 5 presumption earlier weakening, with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph (205 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center successful Miami.
The storm’s halfway was astir 155 miles (245 kilometers) northbound of San Juan, Puerto Rico and astir 300 miles (500 kilometers) eastbound of the Grand Turk Island, moving west-northwest astatine 14 mph (22 kph).
A tropical tempest informing means tropical tempest conditions are expected determination wrong the informing area, and successful this case, wrong 24 hours, the NHC said. Heavy rainfall is inactive expected crossed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, with rainfall of 3 to 6 inches (about 7.6 to 15 cms), with 8 inches (20 cms) successful immoderate isolated areas.
More than 159,000 customers were without powerfulness successful Puerto Rico arsenic a effect of Hurricane Erin connected Sunday morning, according to Luma Energy, a backstage institution that oversees the transmission and organisation of powerfulness connected the island.
Swells were besides expected to impact portions of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the Turks and Caicos Islands during the adjacent mates of days, the NHC reported.
The authorities of the Bahamas besides issued a tropical tempest ticker for the Southeast Bahamas.
Scientists person linked the accelerated intensification of hurricanes successful the Atlantic to clime change. Global warming is causing the ambiance to clasp much h2o vapor and is spiking water temperatures, and warmer waters springiness hurricanes substance to unleash much rainfall and fortify much quickly.
