Hurricane Erin to slam Florida to Atlantic Canada with massive waves, dangerous rip currents

Outer Banks braces for unsafe surf from Hurricane Erin

FOX Weather Storm Specialist Mike Seidel is successful Kitty Hawk, North Carolina arsenic the portion prepares for unsafe coastal impacts from Hurricane Erin. The full eastbound seaboard is connected alert for rip currents, unsmooth surf and coastal flooding. Evacuations are underway for parts of the Outer Banks. 

While the U.S. volition beryllium spared a landfall from monster Hurricane Erin, the impacts volition beryllium felt up and down the East Coast passim the week with life-threatening coastal conditions, rip currents and large waves. 

Erin is simply a Category 4 hurricane with 140-mph winds forecast to enactment offshore successful the Atlantic, threading the needle betwixt Bermuda and the U.S. coast. As Erin begins to propulsion up alongside the Bahamas and past Florida, this elephantine tropical strategy volition bring coastal flooding and highly unsafe conditions for boaters and radical surviving successful coastal communities from Florida to Atlantic Canada.  

Hurricane Erin’s highly ample size volition besides bring unsafe winds and plentifulness of rainfall to the U.S. East Coast. According to the National Hurricane Center, hurricane-force winds widen outward up to 80 miles, portion tropical-storm-force winds widen outward up to 230 miles.

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When volition the US consciousness Erin’s impacts?

Flooding, rip currents, tiny trade and question advisories are already successful spot for galore areas from Florida to New England. 

Things are already cooking for Florida and the Southeast connected Monday arsenic unsmooth oversea conditions are beginning, according to FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross. 

"The biggest interaction from Erin's transition paralleling the East Coast volition beryllium from the large, eroding waves and beardown currents caused by the immense expanse of beardown winds blowing implicit the ocean," Norcross said. "The highest impacts on the beaches and successful the waterways from Palm Beach County, Florida, to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, look apt to hap (Tuesday) into Thursday, though the disturbed water volition statesman to beryllium noticeable (Monday)."

Peak question heights and damaging winds successful the Carolinas are forecast to hap from Wednesday nighttime into Thursday morning. Some communities on the Outer Banks are already nether evacuation with the impending menace of coastal flooding, winds and waves.

The Outer Banks could spot winds of up to 60 mph and waves up to 20 feet, including Nags Head, Kitty Hawk and Hatteras Island. It doesn't instrumentality overmuch for these areas to flood, and with Erin's wide upwind tract and waves, coastal erosion is besides likely. 

A High Surf Advisory is successful spot for the Outer Banks done Friday. 

Then Erin’s vigor volition determination northbound with impacts successful the mid-Atlantic, Northeast and New England coasts.

Large breaking waves, rip currents and damaging winds are imaginable for these areas done Friday. Waves are forecast to scope betwixt 8 and 12 feet, with highest winds of astir 40 mph imaginable from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Nantucket, Massachusetts.

A Coastal Flood Advisory is successful spot for overmuch of the Delaware and New Jersey coastlines done Tuesday night. 

"As the hurricane moves north, the absorption of the vigor volition determination northbound to the coastline from Cape Hatteras to New England, including the Tidewater of Virginia, the Delmarva, the Jersey Shore, Long Island, New York, and the New England coast," Norcross said.

By Friday, Erin should beryllium moving betwixt Bermuda and Atlantic Canada, wherever coastal impacts are imaginable into the weekend.