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.

The first Atlantic hurricane of 2025, Erin ramped up from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in a mere 24 hours.

Hurricane Erin raced from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm. If Erin keeps ramping up, is there a Category 6?

While the compact hurricane’s center was not expected to strike land, it threatened to dump flooding rains in the northeast Caribbean.

Erin has intensified to a Category Five Hurricane as it makes its way toward the East Coast of the United States.

Hurricane Erin forges ahead on a western track at 16 mph, but Miami's NHC expects the hurricane will soon round a corner

Can you ride out a Category 5 hurricane on the 50th floor? Would you want to? You might not make it through the storm alive, experts say. Even if you do, your building won’t likely be the same when the storm is over.

When it exploded to 160-mph sustained winds on August 16, Erin became the 11th Category 5 storm in the basin since 2016.