Bryan Norcross: As Erin exits, there's tropical activity to watch but no threats on the horizon

Bryan Norcross: Dangerous surf and rip currents stay from Hurricane Erin

Bryan Norcross: The water volition proceed to beryllium agitated on the East Coast Friday and Saturday – the National Weather Service is posting High Surf Advisories on the seashore from North Carolina to the Canadian border. It volition instrumentality a fewer days for the vigor successful the h2o to wholly dissipate. Hurricane Erin was successful the apical 10% of biggest akin storms successful the grounds book.

Updated astatine 10 a.m. EST connected Aug. 22, 2025

Giant Hurricane Erin is moving distant from onshore and its effect connected the water on the East Coast is dilatory diminishing. Miraculously, the tempest volition caput retired to oversea having done small much than brushwood onshore areas.

The storm's apical winds are decreasing, and it's accelerating distant from land. Erin is forecast to go non-tropical time and crook into a monolithic North Atlantic storm. Gusty winds volition brushwood Atlantic Canada arsenic Erin goes by, and the strategy looks apt to bring atrocious upwind to the UK oregon Northern Europe successful a week oregon so.

HURRICANE ERIN SPINS AWAY FROM US BUT DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS, ROUGH SEAS FOR SWIMMING TO LAST THROUGH WEEKEND

This graphic shows surf alerts done Saturday, August 23, 2025.

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Hurricane Erin was successful the apical 10% of biggest akin storms successful the grounds book. The flimsy crook it took connected Wednesday day pulled it conscionable acold capable from the seashore to minimize the impacts successful North Carolina, though the beaches were pounded by precocious waves on astir of the East Coast.

The oversea h2o levels were astatine mean flood stage, with a fewer dipping into large flood, astatine a fig of locations successful the mid-Atlantic. I haven't seen immoderate reports of important damage, however. We were precise lucky.

This graphic shows outer imagery of Hurricane Erin. 

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The water volition proceed to beryllium agitated on the East Coast contiguous and time – the National Weather Service is posting High Surf Advisories on the seashore from North Carolina to the Canadian border. It volition instrumentality a fewer days for the vigor successful the h2o to wholly dissipate.

Local officials volition measure whether the beardown currents produced by the hurricane person diminished to a harmless level for swimming. Inform yourself of the latest accusation earlier you spell successful the ocean.

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Elsewhere successful the Tropics

The National Hurricane Center is inactive mentioning 3 systems, though nary looks similar a important threat.

Near the Northeast Caribbean

The wide disorganized tropical disturbance that was tagged Invest #90L is passing northeast of the Caribbean. The strategy isn't yet showing immoderate signs of an organized circulation, but it volition apt nutrient immoderate gusty downpours arsenic its moisture process swings done the islands implicit the adjacent fewer days.

The disturbance volition way to the northbound and caput successful the wide absorption of Bermuda – good disconnected the East Coast of the U.S. The National Hurricane Center has the system's likelihood of processing into a tropical slump oregon tropical tempest successful the precocious range. Most machine models hold that it's apt to go a tropical tempest oregon perchance a hurricane arsenic it moves northbound and past arcs retired to sea.

Bermuda is going to person to support an oculus connected this system. Most of the machine forecasts foretell the tempest volition way to the eastbound of the island, but forecasts for undeveloped systems are ever taxable to ample errors.

The adjacent sanction connected the database is Fernand, but it's not wide that this disturbance volition beryllium the archetypal 1 to scope tropical tempest strength.

This graphic shows tropical enactment successful the Atlantic Basin.

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In the Tropical Atlantic

A robust disturbance tagged Invest #99L has looked awesome connected the satellite, but the strategy hasn't had a well-defined circulation, which is the cardinal criterion to being designated a tropical depression.

There's inactive a accidental that the strategy could rotation up into a tropical slump oregon a tropical storm, but the model is reasonably short. Hostile conditions are ahead. The National Hurricane Center's likelihood for the strategy to go astatine slightest a slump are successful the mean range.

That disturbance volition apt determination done the confederate Caribbean islands arsenic a moisture surge. We'll person to ticker it successful 9 oregon 10 days erstwhile it reaches the occidental Caribbean oregon the utmost confederate Gulf – if it inactive exists astatine that time.

In the Central Atlantic

The National Hurricane Center was coating a tiny citrus wherever a non-tropical low-pressure strategy had a debased accidental of processing into a tropical depression. That anticipation has evaporated.

Looking Ahead

Once these systems wide the board, thing looks imminent. There's a bully accidental we'll decorativeness August without different important tropical system.

Remember, past twelvemonth determination was a agelong tropical snooze, and past the power flipped successful the mediate of September. The constituent is, what happens present is not indicative of what is yet to come.

The wide pulse that moves astir the Earth – called the MJO – that enhances oregon suppresses tropical enactment is owed to travel backmost astir aft Labor Day. That doesn't mean that thing couldn't make successful the meantime, but the likelihood are lower.