The National Weather Service says Hurricane Erin has strengthened back to a Category 4 after it weakened to a Category 3 Sunday morning. Live 5 First Alert Meteorologist Joey Sovine said the storm strengthened Friday morning to a Category 1 storm.

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.

Hurricane Erin has strengthened back to a Category 4 storm after weakening slightly, with the National Hurricane Center reporting maximum sustained winds of 130 mph early Monday. The hurricane underwent an eyewall replacement cycle,

Brief: Tropical Storm Erin is likely to become a hurricane in the next 48 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center on Aug. 12.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Tropical Storm Erin is moving quickly westward across the Atlantic Ocean and could strengthen into a hurricane by late Thursday, prompting the National Hurricane Center to advise residents of the northern Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to monitor the storm's progress.

As the Gulf disturbance nears Texas, tropical moisture will surge Friday and Saturday in the Houston metro area, leading to increasing storm chances.

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The Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season had maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour, forecasters said.

Though Erin is not currently forecast to make landfall in the U.S., the East Coast could still get heavy rainfall associated with the storm, along with the northern Leeward Islands, the British Virgin Islands and southern and eastern Puerto Rico. Isolated flash flooding, landslides and mudslides are possible.

The center of a tropical disturbance that flared up in the Gulf began to move across land on Friday, bringing heavy rainfall to parts of northeastern Mexico and South Texas.