Hurricane Erin. So far, 2025 has been a fairly quiet season for tropical systems in the Atlantic Ocean—but Hurricane Erin did its best to stir things up, even if it missed the East Coast and delivered only a glancing blow to the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos—and a brush past Bermuda.
Now it’s off toward Ireland and the United Kingdom …
But when it gets there next week, Erin will be an extratropical cyclone—a cold-core storm that will pack less of a punch than a warm-core storm would. The GFS model shows Erin spinning in the waters between Iceland and Ireland for several days, bringing rains from Tuesday all the way to Saturday in Dublin.
Then, a combination of wind shear and sinking air over the Atlantic will throw a blanket over hurricane season for a while. But the season for tropical systems in the Atlantic doesn’t end until November 30, meaning there’s plenty of time for more tropical mayhem in 2025.
—Brendan Hasenstab