A striking satellite image shared by NASA 's Earth Observatory captured the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2025 season, "Erin," roiling over the ocean as it caused weather alerts in nearby coastal regions.

The storm originally formed mid-August, and rapidly intensified into a category 5 hurricane as it approached the Caribbean and the U.S. East Coast.

While it did not make landfall, it did send heavy rain and strong winds to parts of the the U.S. Atlantic coast as well as the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and the Turks and Caicos.

An animation shared by NASA—composed of images acquired with the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the Suomi NPP satellite—traces Erin's trajectory from August 14 to 19.

Erin sustained heavy winds with peaks of 160 miles per hour on August 16, wh

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