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Erin

Every dispatch filed on Erin, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.

8Dispatches
10Days · AUG 11–AUG 20
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed2 of 8 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Erin remains weak but should intensify into a hurricane by Thursday FIGURE 1 AUG 12 · I-26 TROPICS Erin remains weak but should intensify into a hurricane by Thursday Earlier Saturday, Erin reached Category 5 FIGURE 1 AUG 16 · I-26 TROPICS Earlier Saturday, Erin reached Category 5 Erin inner core slightly improved as wind shear decreased FIGURE 1 AUG 19 · I-26 TROPICS Erin inner core slightly improved as wind shear decreased
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · AUG 11 · Subscribers Monday: Erin to become a major hurricane east of the Bahamas by weekend Bahamas
  2. Exit 2 · AUG 12 Erin remains weak but should intensify into a hurricane by Thursday
  3. Exit 3 · AUG 14 · Subscribers Models show Major Hurricane Erin curving out to sea well off the East Coast Western Atlantic
  4. Exit 4 · AUG 16 Earlier Saturday, Erin reached Category 5
  5. Exit 5 · AUG 18 · Subscribers Erin struggling against wind shear and dry air but maintaining Major Status
  6. Exit 6 · AUG 19 · Subscribers Erin now Category 2 maximum winds but overall size expanding
  7. Exit 7 · AUG 19 Erin inner core slightly improved as wind shear decreased
  8. Exit 8 · AUG 20 · Subscribers Erin had a wonderful day regaining intensity down to 941 mb
END Final dispatch AUG 20.

Why I-26?

Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.

26 °C

The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.

Invest

An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.

ACE

Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.