SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - After last year’s record-breaking hurricane season, Floridians are watching every update like hawks, and with good reason. Hurricane Erin wasted no time exploding into a Category 5 storm on Saturday, with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph and a central pressure of 915 millibars.

The storm is currently about 175 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, moving west at 15 mph. The National Hurricane Center upgraded Erin to Category 5 at 11:20 a.m.

Saturday, just minutes after the 11 o’clock advisory, when Hurricane Hunter aircraft confirmed the storm’s rapid intensification. Remarkably, this came only 24 hours after Erin was first named a hurricane, one of the fastest jumps to Cat 5 ever recorded in the Atlantic.

Outer rainbands are already dumping heavy rain on

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