Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Hurricane Erin's life-threatening impacts begin along East Coast

Weather successful America: August 20, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera.

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Hurricane Erin closes beaches from Florida to New York, unleashes monster waves, rip currents, utmost erosion

Hurricane Erin continues to churn successful the Atlantic waters hundreds of miles disconnected the U.S., prompting officials to adjacent beaches on the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast owed to monolithic waves and perchance deadly rip currents conscionable arsenic families instrumentality their last vacations of the summer.

Hurricane Erin isn’t forecast to marque landfall on the U.S. East Coast. However, unsafe impacts are expected nevertheless owed to outer rainfall bands perchance lashing North Carolina’s Outer Banks, wherever Tropical Storm Warnings and Storm Surge Warnings stay successful effect.

Tropics heating up with Invest 99L, different tropical disturbance down Hurricane Erin

Outside of Hurricane Erin successful the occidental Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring 2 areas of disturbed upwind successful the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters accidental neither appears apt to make into a tropical cyclone that would instantly endanger immoderate landmasses.

The archetypal disturbance, astir 1,000 miles eastbound of the Lesser Antilles, has been fixed a mean accidental of improvement implicit the adjacent respective days. A 2nd disturbance, designated Invest 99L, has lone a debased accidental of improvement done the adjacent week. 

Watch this: Dust devil wreaks havoc connected New York formation arsenic children tally screaming for cover

A dust devil turned a nice, sunny time astatine the formation astatine Graton Lakes State Park successful New York into a chaotic country arsenic kids ran screaming from the spinning particulate cloud. 

The dust, caught connected video, caused formation umbrellas and different instrumentality to get picked up and tossed around. In the video, children ran astir the beach, trying to get retired of the dust's mode and question cover, screaming arsenic they ran away.

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