One tracker has Erin making landfall in NC.
Hurricane Erin has rapidly intensified into a category five hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 160mph (260km/h).
Hurricane Erin is now a rare Category 5.
The storm is forecast to at least double or triple in size next week. cnn.it/4mGNDqd[image or embed]
" CNN (@cnn.com) Aug 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
@#7
I remember when Hurricane Sandy was approaching the NYC area.
While most of the models had the storm continuing north then out to sea, one model showed the storm taking a sharp right turn and going inland over New Jersey.
That one model was the correct one, the then not well-known European model.
Since then, the European model has grown to be one of the more respected models.
Hurricane Sandy - Forecasts
en.wikipedia.org
... On October 23, 2012, the path of Hurricane Sandy was correctly predicted by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) headquartered in Reading, England nearly eight days in advance of its striking the American East Coast.
The computer model noted that the storm would turn west towards land and strike the New York/New Jersey region on October 29, rather than turn east and head out to the open Atlantic as most hurricanes in this position do.
By October 27, four days after the ECMWF made its prediction, the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center confirmed the path of the hurricane predicted by the European model.
The National Weather Service was criticized for not employing its higher-resolution forecast models the way that its European counterpart did. A hardware and software upgrade completed at the end of 2013 enabled the weather service to make predictions more accurate and farther in advance than the technology in 2012 had allowed.[35] ...
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