Giant Hurricane Erin is moving away from land and its effect on the ocean along the East Coast is slowly diminishing. Miraculously, the storm will head out to sea having done little more than brush land areas. The storm's top winds are decreasing and it's accelerating away from land. Erin is forecast to become non-tropical tomorrow and turn into a massive North Atlantic storm. Gusty winds will brush Atlantic Canada as Erin goes by, and the system looks likely to bring bad weather to the UK o...| Hurricane Intel
Hurricane Erin is slowly pulling away from North Carolina. Winds are gusty and tides are elevated, but the worst of the storm stayed right offshore. We’ll still have impacts spreading north all the way to New England, however – whatever happens will peak at the time of high tide along the Northeast coast. Until Erin accelerates out to sea tonight, the large diameter storm is putting a tremendous amount of energy into the ocean that will show up at the beaches and waterways along the East...| Hurricane Intel
Even though Hurricane Erin's top winds are not as intense as they once were, the storm has grown in size so its impacts will spread over a wider area. The atmosphere ahead of Erin looks to be reasonably conducive for intensification, so the National Hurricane Center is forecasting the top winds to increase slightly to the top end of the Category 2 range. The central pressure is already dropping, so the intensification process seems to already be underway. Although in a giant storm, the proce...| Hurricane Intel