Having become on Saturday morning “major hurricane”, that is to say a category 3 or more storm on the scale of Saffir-Simpson, he quickly passed in category 4 then 5.
Erin is Saturday evening located 215 kilometers from the British overseas territory of Anguilla.
The Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy islands and the British archipelago of the Turkish-and-Caica islands, to the east of which Erin could spend Sunday, are also placed under surveillance. “Erin is now a Hurricane of catastrophic category 5,” warned the NHC.
The storm could cause up to 150 millimeters of rain in certain isolated areas, running the risk of large floods, landslides or mudslides, warned the weather authorities.
The hurricane should then turn northwest and get closer to the Bahamas on Sunday evening and Monday, before weaken.
The swells generated by Erin will affect part of the northern islands of small Antilles, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are divided, as well as Turkish and Caican Islands. They will then extend at the start of the week at the Bahamas, the Bermuda and the east and southeast coast of the United States, causing particularly dangerous waves and currents, according to the NHC.
