NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – East Coast braces for life-threatening surf and rip currents from Hurricane Erin plus there’s upped chances for additional tropical formation in the coming days.
First, we’ll chat Hurricane Erin whose 500-miles west-southwest of Bermuda and 400-miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina as of 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
It has maximum sustained winds of 100-mph as it moves north-northwest at 13mph.
Erin is still at category 2 and considered a large hurricane with its hurricane-force winds extending outwards up to 90-miles from the center and tropical-storm-winds extend outward up to 265-miles.
The outer bands of this hurricane will bring worsening weather conditions by Wednesday night to the coast of North Carolina in addition to the already life-threatening surf and rip currents that the area has seen over the last few days.
The National Hurricane Center forecasts that this hurricane will turn towards the north and north-northeast on Wednesday then change to a faster motion towards the northeast and east-northeast by Thursday and Friday.
In terms of the track, the NHC predicts that “the center of Erin will move over the western Atlantic between the U.S. east coast and Bermuda [Wednesday] through early Friday, and then pass south of Atlantic Canada Friday and Saturday.”
Some strengthening may be possible over the next day or so, but weakening is expected to begin by Friday as Erin remains a hurricane into the weekend.
There’s a Storm Surge Warning in effect for Cape Lookout to Duck, North Carolina along with a Tropical Storm Warning for Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina up to Virginia and a Tropical Storm Watch for Bermuda and north of the North Carolina/Virginia border to Chincoteague, Virginia.
Then in terms of the two areas in the tropical Atlantic that we continue to monitor:
There’s a tropical wave (RIGHT) located southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands that sees a “concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms.”
According to the National Hurricane Center, “environmental conditions appear marginally favorable for additional development over the next day or so while the system moves westward at around 15-mph and a short-lived tropical depression could form,” but it’s expected that environmental conditions will become unfavorable for further development by the end of this week.
Formation chances for this area has been upped to 40% for both the next 48-hours and 7-days.
We also continue to monitor the tropical wave (LEFT) located over the central tropical Atlantic that “continues to produce a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.”
According to the NHC, “environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development of this system and a tropical depression could form late this week or over the weekend while it moves near or to the north of the northern Leeward Islands.”
Formation chances here continue to hold at 10% for the next 48-hours and 60% for the next 7-days.
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