Erin became a Category 5 hurricane as of Saturday morning, packing winds over 160 miles per hour, and is passing north of the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico Saturday evening.

Erin strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 85 mph on Friday evening and is more than 300 miles east of the northeastern Caribbean’s Leeward Islands, according to the Nation...

One of the major storms in Atlantic waters, Hurricane Erin intensified to a rare category 5 before becoming a category 4 storm.