Bryan Norcross: Peak impacts from Hurricane Erin on East Coast today

Updated astatine 9:30 a.m. ET connected Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025

Hurricane Erin is dilatory pulling distant from North Carolina. Winds are gusty and tides are elevated, but the worst of the tempest stayed close offshore. We’ll inactive person impacts spreading northbound to New England. However, immoderate happens volition highest astatine the clip of precocious tide on the Northeast coast.

Until Erin accelerates retired to oversea tonight, the large-diameter tempest is putting a tremendous magnitude of vigor into the water that volition amusement up astatine the beaches and waterways on the East Coast arsenic elevated precocious tides and almighty waves.

The vigor emanating from Erin volition beryllium felt connected astir of the East Coast of the U.S., but the absorption volition beryllium from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, northbound to New England.

The elevated water level and waves person not challenged the dunes connected Cape Hatteras this morning. The highest h2o levels person been successful Pamlico Sound from the persistent northbound winds blowing the h2o south. Elevated h2o astir Chesapeake Bay volition proceed done the day, arsenic well.

Satellite presumption of Hurricane Erin disconnected the U.S. East Coast connected Aug. 21, 2025. 

(FOX Weather)

The highest of the waves and swells from Erin impacting northeastern North Carolina, the Tidewater of Virginia, the Delmarva Peninsula, the Jersey Shore, the seashore of Long Island, New York, and the New England coastline looks to beryllium betwixt 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. this evening.

It makes a large quality successful the Northeast whether the tide is precocious oregon debased due to the fact that the h2o level swings 5 feet oregon more. The tempest volition beryllium pulling distant from the seashore astatine that time, truthful portion the water volition beryllium unsafe for swimming, and the waves volition beryllium unusually powerful, the impacts should beryllium manageable.

Most beaches on the East Coast volition beryllium closed to swimmers done Friday owed to the highly beardown and unsafe currents successful the water. Be definite to travel immoderate section instructions.

Hurricane Erin is forecast to accelerate retired to oversea tomorrow. The water is inactive apt to beryllium somewhat disturbed connected Saturday, but possibly not dangerously so. By Sunday, things should beryllium settling down.

3 different systems of note

A comparatively ample and disorganized tropical disturbance is approaching the northeastern Caribbean islands. The National Hurricane Center is giving it a precocious accidental of yet processing into a tropical slump oregon tropical storm.

An country to ticker successful the Atlantic. 

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The beardown statement of the machine forecast models is that it volition not beryllium precise beardown erstwhile it's successful the vicinity of the islands time oregon Saturday. It volition apt bring immoderate gusty squalls and tropical downpours, however, particularly to the Virgin Islands and the islands to the east.

This weekend, a beardown fall-like acold beforehand moving disconnected the East Coast and its accompanying dip successful the pitchy watercourse looks to scoop up that disturbance and nonstop it to the north. It volition astir apt way good disconnected the U.S. East Coast, and perchance eastbound of Bermuda arsenic it heads retired to sea.

In the tropical Atlantic

The NHC designated the robust disturbance successful the eastbound tropical Atlantic arsenic Invest 99L. The strategy is moving retired of clip to develop, however. Hostile conditions are ahead, truthful if it doesn't get organized contiguous oregon tomorrow, it's lights out. In immoderate case, determination is nary denotation of that strategy being a threat. It volition apt dice retired successful the tropical Atlantic.

Invest 99L successful the Atlantic

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If it ever becomes a problem, it volition beryllium successful the occidental Caribbean oregon the confederate Gulf successful 9 oregon 10 days.

In the Atlantic

And there's 1 much low-odds citrus connected the representation today. It's a non-tropical low-pressure strategy connected the process extremity of an aged acold front. It has a abbreviated model of clip to make into a slump earlier it is swept retired to sea. In immoderate case, arsenic with the different disturbances, determination is nary menace to land.

It looks similar we person a lull coming successful the tropics that volition astir apt instrumentality america into September. Obviously, we ticker everything intimately this clip of year, but it looks similar Mother Nature is going to springiness america a spot of a break.