Hurricane Erin, North Carolina
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Even more significant is Erin’s massive size. Forecasters say hurricane-force winds are now stretching out as far as 105 miles from Erin’s center, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward to 265 miles.
Hurricane Erin continues to move parallel to the East Coast and it is expected to bring a prolonged period of destructive surf and dangerous rip currents.
Hurricane Erin is a large and powerful storm with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph and a central pressure of 948 mb.
Hurricane Erin strengthend this morning, but still remains a Category 2 storm as it moves up the East Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. As of 11 a.m. Aug. 20, Erin was located about 365 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Hurricane Erin may not be on track to make landfall, but it is still bringing dangerous and destructive impacts up and down the East Coast.
If you take a look at a satellite image of Hurricane Erin, the spiraling cloud shield of the storm looks enormous. Its northern edge reaches a latitude of 36.5 degrees north, roughly in line with the Virginia-North Carolina border. The southern extent is ...
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Several homes along the beach in Rodanthe, North Carolina, have collapsed into the Atlantic over the years due to beach erosion. Swells from Hurricane Erin are threatening even more. Chairman of the Dare County Commissioners Bob Woodard,
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