Intense rainfall on August 20, 2025, caused severe flooding across the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Mexico, disrupting transport, stranding vehicles, and damaging at least 51 homes, according to municipal reports.
An unusually strong summer atmospheric river made landfall over the Pacific Northwest late on August 14, 2025, reaching AR 3 along the Washington coast and producing 75–200 mm (3–8 inches) of rain across parts of western Washington.
Tropical Storm Erin is forecast to grow substantially over the western Atlantic this week, producing dangerous surf, rip currents, and a possible storm surge of 0.6 to 1.2 m (2–4 feet) from Cape Lookout to Duck, North Carolina, as it approaches the U.S. East Coast, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Atlantic Canada.
Heavy rainfall on the night of August 17–18, 2025, caused flash flooding in Caracas, Venezuela, leaving one person dead on the old road to El Junquito.
A disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean’s Main Development Region has a medium chance of developing into a tropical cyclone within the next seven days. If the system develops into a tropical storm, it will be named Fernand, the next designation on the 2025 Atlantic hurricane list.
Category 4 Hurricane Erin was located 220 km (140 miles) north-northeast of Grand Turk Islands at 18:00 UTC (14:00 EDT) on August 18, 2025, with maximum sustained winds of 220 km/h (140 mph), maintaining Category 4 strength while moving northwest at 20 km/h (13 mph).
Hurricane Erin formed at 15:00 UTC on August 15, 2025, becoming the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season. Current forecast calls for continued intensification and status of major hurricane over the weekend.
Heavy monsoon rains triggered devastating floods and landslides across Pakistan on August 15, 2025, killing more than 160 people and destroying critical infrastructure. Additional casualties were reported in Indian-administered Kashmir, where at least 60 people died following a cloudburst and associated flooding.
A massive cloudburst struck Chosoti village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district at around 12:00 local time (LT) on August 14, 2025, killing at least 60 people, injuring more than 300, and leaving over 250 others missing.
Tropical Storm Erin is forecast to strengthen into the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season by August 15, 2025, and could reach major hurricane strength early next week as it moves near or just north of the northern Leeward Islands. The system is prompting early emergency preparations in the U.S. Virgin Islands despite no projected landfall, with forecasters warning of dangerous surf and rip currents across the Caribbean and potentially along the U.S. East Coast.
