Hurricane Erin continues to grow in size as it starts to become a post-tropical system. Despite its forecast to become post-tropical, impacts will remain the same. Coastal flooding will be possible across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic during the next high tide cycle tonight before water levels start to drop.

East Coast of the United States

Hurricane Erin, a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 90 miles per hour, is moving east-northeast away from the U.S. East Coast. While the storm's wind gusts were not a major issue for most areas, some locations experienced gusts up to 55 miles per hour and significant water overwash, particularly in North Carolina, where parts of Highway 12 remain closed.

As Erin moves further offshore, conditions along the coast are improving, with increased sunshine and decreasing wind speeds. Despite this, elevated wave heights of 5 to 10 feet and the risk of coastal flooding and rip currents persist, especially during high tide cycles in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Water levels have risen in some areas, with the Outer Banks experiencing a peak rise of 3.1 feet.

Erin racing away from U.S.; East Coast rip currents linger

that you caught up here on what is going on with Aaron, which is pulling away from the U. S. East Coast. That is certainly some good news here for us, but it brought some impacts here. I mean, look at some of the wind gusts, and we always talked about how wind gusts and the wind was not going to be the big issue with the system, and it generally was not. But we had some big wind gusts around the X had a 55 mile per hour wind gusts there. Oregon Inlet got close to 50 bucks in as well. Close to 50. But in some of these areas again, it was the issues with the water with a lot of overwash. North Carolina's 12 taking on some of that water as well and still remaining closed on parts of North North Carolina 12 even as we speak. But again, there is Aaron. This is the 11 o'clock advisories for the very latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, keeping it at a 90 mile per hour. Category one hurricane moving to the east northeast. But that that pace has picked up. It was 22 miles per hour at the five o'clock advisory now 28 miles per hour. So it's picking up speed and it will continue to move in that direction away from the U. S. So conditions will continue to really improve. Here's a look at the satellite view, and you can see kind of the outer fringes here on the outer extent here of what's going on with Aaron. Uh, so most of those clouds have now pushed well offshore, so we've got quite a bit of sunshine out there, and that stretches from Boston down towards Montauk. The neck Tuckett area. That's one of the spots seeing some gusty winds. In fact, bosses picked up the gusts just as of late, up over 20 with their wind gusts, nearly 30 in Nantucket. Stronger wind gusts there in this buoy here. That is well offshore. You're gusting close to 50 miles per hour, but again, that's well on offshore, well towards the east. Now, with those winds still again out there with this system churning up the waters, wave heights are still up. You got a couple blueys closer to the coast here of Maine. Six ft wave showing up there eight ft just east of eastern Massachusetts. So generally, I'd say five to 10 ft waves is what we're finding closer towards the coast. And of course, those wave heights start to increase as you move out over the open waters closer to Aaron. But this thing is massive, and we've been talking about just how large the size has been here. It continues to actually get bigger tropical storm force winds extending about 370 miles away from the center with the hurricane force winds about 125 miles from the center. So still strong winds associated with this thing, particularly closer to the center. And while that's continuing to whip up some of those waves, even as we speak wind shear, though, that's really taking its toll on this thing. Pretty strong winds here driving on in, which was really helping to really discombobulated this thing and help it to kind of transition to what is expected as we get into tonight as more of a post tropical system as it moves away across the northern parts of the Atlantic. So as it moves away, watch those wind speeds and again, still kind of gusty here, particularly around the Cape, down towards Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket. Those areas, maybe 20 to 30 mile per hour winds as we move through the afternoon. But moving into tonight, even those wind speeds start to come down across the board, but we'll still face issues in those waters. We have another high tide cycle to get through, and that comes in later on this evening, kind of 7 to 8 o'clock 8 o'clock time frame, and that's where we could see a little bit more coastal flood issues here, stretching across the mid Atlantic and into the northeast. Those areas are a little bit more susceptible to coastal flooding. Those are the spots that we're gonna be a bit more concerned with, and you can see some of the coastal gauges here getting up. This is the forecast. Some areas moderate, maybe even major flood stage in a gauge or two showing up, and we've seen some water rise here over the last 48 hours, which kind of went well with what the forecast was particularly here in the outer banks. We were looking for about 2 to 4 ft water rise. That's kind of what we saw peaking here in duck with a 3.1 ft of water rise showing up there.

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