As of 5:00 p.m. AST on Sunday, Erin’s center was positioned approximately 275 miles northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, tracking west-northwest at 13 mph. Although no longer directly affecting the area, the storm’s outer bands are still delivering heavy rainfall, dangerous marine conditions, and life-threatening surf along coastal areas.

While the compact hurricane's center wasn't expected to strike land, it threatened to dump flooding rains on the northeast Caribbean as it continued to grow larger.

It quickly powered up from a tropical storm to a Category 5 in a single day, the National Hurricane Center said.

The Atlantic season’s first hurricane briefly strengthened into a 'catastrophic' Category 5 storm before weakening.

Hurricane Erin is likely to restrengthen again as it passes east of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeast Bahamas on Monday after lashing the Caribbean with damaging winds and flooding rain.

Hurricane Erin has strengthened into a Category 2 storm as it approaches Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, bringing heavy rains that could cause flooding and landslides.

A New York man was shot and killed in Puerto Rico, where he was visiting to attend a Bad Bunny concert, police said.

Before the Magic travel across the pond for a pair of regular season games in Europe against the Grizzlies during Orlando‘s 37th year of basketball, Jamahl Mosley‘s squad will meet a familiar face on a Caribbean island for a preseason contest.