Hurricane Erin reaches Category 5 intensity north of the Leeward Islands

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared images (above) showed the WNW motion of the eye of Hurricane Erin during a 7-hour period as the tropical cyclone rapidly intensified from a Category 4 storm at 0950 UTC to a Category 5 storm at 1520 UTC, north of the Leeward Islands on... Read More