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Hurricane Erin formed early Friday, Aug. 15, marking the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season before exploding over the weekend.
By Tuesday morning, Erin had lost some strength from previous days and dropped to a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph), the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Hurricane Erin weakened some overnight but was still a Category 3 storm on Tuesday that was expected to grow much larger as it approached the United States. Erin, the first hurricane of 2025 in the Atlantic,