Hurricane Erick tracker: Live maps and real-time tools show the storm’s projected path toward Mexico
With the 2025 hurricane season underway in the eastern Pacific, Hurricane Erick is picking up speed as it heads toward southern Mexico, strengthening to a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center. Erick is currently located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 105 miles south of Puerto Ángel. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center forecast that Erick would rapidly intensify, strengthen throughout Wednesday, and reach “major hurricane strength” Wednesday night or early Thursday as it approaches the coast of southern Mexico. The storm is expected to bring damaging winds and “life-threatening flash floods,” with 8 to 16 inches of rain (20 inches maximum), across the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero, which could lead to mudslides. It could also bring 2 to 4 inches (6 inches maximum) across Chiapas, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, and Mexico City—and to Guatemala. Erick is expected to move inland or be near the coast on Thursday, prompting a hurricane warning from Acapulco to Puerto Ángel and a hurricane watch for west of Acapulco to Tecpán de Galeana. The storm will produce heavy rainfall across portions of Central America and southwest Mexico through this week, and a dangerous storm surge is expected to produce coastal flooding. How to track Hurricane Erick’s path in real time Erick, the fifth named storm for the current eastern Pacific hurricane season, is currently traveling northeast with sustained winds of about 85 mph, a maximum of 100 mph, with higher gusts and hurricane-force winds extending 15 miles out from its center. It is expected to turn northwest later on Wednesday. Hurricanes can change paths quickly, which is why tracking the storm is so important. For updated information, advisories, and maps showing projected and traveled paths, check out these resources below: Esri’s Hurricane Aware National Hurricane Center
With the 2025 hurricane season underway in the eastern Pacific, Hurricane Erick is picking up speed as it heads toward southern Mexico, strengthening to a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center.
Erick is currently located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 105 miles south of Puerto Ángel.
NOAA’s National Hurricane Center forecast that Erick would rapidly intensify, strengthen throughout Wednesday, and reach “major hurricane strength” Wednesday night or early Thursday as it approaches the coast of southern Mexico.
The storm is expected to bring damaging winds and “life-threatening flash floods,” with 8 to 16 inches of rain (20 inches maximum), across the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero, which could lead to mudslides. It could also bring 2 to 4 inches (6 inches maximum) across Chiapas, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, and Mexico City—and to Guatemala.
Erick is expected to move inland or be near the coast on Thursday, prompting a hurricane warning from Acapulco to Puerto Ángel and a hurricane watch for west of Acapulco to Tecpán de Galeana.
The storm will produce heavy rainfall across portions of Central America and southwest Mexico through this week, and a dangerous storm surge is expected to produce coastal flooding.
How to track Hurricane Erick’s path in real time
Erick, the fifth named storm for the current eastern Pacific hurricane season, is currently traveling northeast with sustained winds of about 85 mph, a maximum of 100 mph, with higher gusts and hurricane-force winds extending 15 miles out from its center. It is expected to turn northwest later on Wednesday.
Hurricanes can change paths quickly, which is why tracking the storm is so important. For updated information, advisories, and maps showing projected and traveled paths, check out these resources below:
