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Hurricane Erin intensified faster than forecast, reaching Category 3 with 113-knot winds and a central pressure of 948 hectopascals on 16 August, then projected to strengthen to Category 4 the same day before weakening back to Category 3–2 by the following Tuesday and passing west of Bermuda on Thursday.1:41 Javi, aboard Regina at a boatyard in Trinidad, tracks the storm using the NOAA National Hurricane Center model on Windy, comparing it against the UKM and ECMWF models.2:06 He judges the NHC model the most accurate of the three, noting that ECMWF predicted only Category 1 intensity by Monday 18 — already contradicted by real-time conditions.3:23 Erin formed near Cabo Verde, tracked northwest, and at the time of the update sat more than 500 miles from Trinidad, posing no threat to the southern Caribbean.4:37 Javi notes Trinidad's position well south of typical hurricane tracks makes direct impacts rare, but commits to monitoring through November.4:42 The NHC model on Windy outperformed both UKM and ECMWF in tracking Erin's rapid intensification.

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