Hurricane Erin became the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season on Friday, with sustained winds of 75 mph as it moves toward the Leeward Islands.

Colorado State University experts released their final forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season last week, on Aug. 6.

Invest 98L, the system that emerged in the Gulf earlier this week, is strengthening as it moves northward and will likely be significant rian to Texas.

HOUSTON — A tropical disturbance in the southwestern Gulf now has no chance of developing into a tropical depression but is still expected to send waves of tropical downpours along the Texas coast into Saturday. As of Friday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center is giving this system a 0% chance of development.

It’s impossible to say for sure whether Texas will face a hurricane landfall this year, but the chances of landfall have grown in recent decades, according to Colorado State University researchers, the authors of a well-regarded annual hurricane season ...

Invest 98-L is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms at about 75 miles off the coast of the southern Texas coastline. The system could become a short-lived tropical depression before moving inland. Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is possible over the next couple of days for Mexico and Texas.

There’s a tropical wave known as 98L starting to pick up steam in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico’s southern coast that may bring rain to the Rio Grande Valley as soon as Friday morning. The low formed earlier this week, not long after the start of the second half of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

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