NOAA and Air Force hurricane hunters captured stunning footage inside Hurricane Erin’s eye over the Atlantic Ocean.

NOAA updated its hurricane season outlook for 2025 on Thursday, maintaining its forecast for above-normal activity as the peak of the season arrives.

Hurricane Erin is proving to be a monster storm, quickly jumping to a Category 5 storm on Saturday before losing a bit of strength.Tropical-storm-force winds n

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But because Erin is growing both in size and intensity, chances are increasing that it will still create rough conditions at sea and along beaches as it moves northward off the coast, the weather ...

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But the season is still expected to be above normal. An average Atlantic hurricane season generates 14 named storms. NOAA predicted 13 to 18 named storms, with four already behind us but the busiest months of hurricane season ahead. On Aug. 7, NOAA released an updated forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

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It was therefore necessary, the NOAA scientists held, to “correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements, and we are using this in our trend analysis.” Now get ready to be shocked.

“Erin is a large hurricane. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 90 miles (150 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 265 miles (425 km),” NOAA reported at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 20.