Hurricane Erin’s reach through the western Atlantic continues to grow and intensify, with pressures quickly falling into the low 940s while churning about 475 miles east-southeast of northeast Florida.
Hurricane Erin, already twice as large as it was just a few days ago, is expected to grow even larger this week as its expanding wind field brushes up against the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, delivering days of dangerous waves, high surf, and life-threatening rip currents for most of the coastal Atlantic states.
Hurricane Erin forced tourists to cut their vacations short on North Carolina’s Outer Banks even though the monster storm is expected to stay offshore after lashing part of the Caribbean with rain and wind on Monday.