Hurricane Erin is expected to stay offshore but will still impact the East Coast with life-threatening surf and rip currents this week. Areas from Charleston, South Carolina, to Florida were cleared.

Meteorologists are tracking Hurricane Erin as it moves westward, with its path influenced by a strong Bermuda High and upper-level winds. The storm has cleared areas from Charleston, South Carolina, south through Florida and the Gulf Coast of direct rain and wind impacts, but concerns remain for regions further north.

The hurricane's future track depends on the timing and strength of a dip in the jet stream. If this dip is delayed or more pronounced, the storm could move closer to the U.S. East Coast, increasing the risk of wind, storm surge, and rainfall, particularly along North Carolina's Outer Banks. Experts do not currently expect a landfall, but the situation is being closely monitored due to potential impacts.

Tracking Hurricane Erin's threat across the U.S. East Coast

Based on this northwestern, we could actually clear areas of direct impacts. It's also important, as you mentioned, Bernie, to say where the storm direct impacts are not going to occur. So from Charleston, South Carolina, south through all of Florida and the Gulf Coast, cleared of direct rain and wind impacts from Erin. So that's we want people to be aware of that in those areas. Of course, further north, we still have concerns. We still have some concerns farther north now because of the track. The next areas that may get cleared are parts of the mid-Atlantic and northeast from rain and wind. We're not there just yet. All right, we just finished map discussion, John, and what's very concerning to us, not only the fact that the eye is getting better organized here, and that's why we think the wind intensity is going to be raised, but the west movement continues. This occurred all weekend. You and I have been watching this all weekend and talking about it, Bernie. The fact is that this storm has had trouble gaining latitude, moving north. It has had a tendency to move more west than north, and it's once again doing that this morning as it's organizing better once again and intensifying. It appears as though what's going on, and this happened all weekend, this upper high, the Bermuda High, has been strong, and it continues to push it to the west. And when you look at atmospheric profiles around, Aaron, we were just looking with Aaron De Silva, you found something very interesting. He did. We were looking at the winds at about 45,000 feet near the storm, and those winds are actually coming in from the north and from the east, and that's actually sort of against the storm's motion. So again, that's why there's been more of a westerly component. This ridge of high pressure has been stronger, been further west, and this dip in the jet stream, this is what we were talking about last week, it has not been as deep, and so that means the storm continues to go to the west for now. Here's 75 degrees west, here's 74. We're thinking it may get as far west as 75 degrees west as we get into Tuesday and then Wednesday and then the next fork in the road. We talked about this. It's that dip in the jet stream. Now, this is the American model. I will say this has been the worst of all of the modeling here, but it does show this dip in the jet stream. Now, John, if it's this strong and it gets all the way down into northern Virginia... This is rocketing out. It's an east-northeast, and it's 250, maybe even 300 miles east of the Outer Banks. But, John, if it's delayed, we have a problem. That's correct, and it's all going to come down to small details in this dip in the jet stream across the Great Lakes. So that feature is now over the Intermountain West. You and I were just looking at it. If this dip is a little bit slower and a little bit more pronounced, then that allows the storm motion to get a little bit closer to the coast. Now, we still don't expect there to be a landfall, Bernie, but the further west the storm gets, that means there can be greater wind storm surge impacts in particular and even additional rainfall right along the Outer Banks, which is why we're so concerned about North Carolina 12 and those kinds of issues there. Are we changing any of the track? This is the latest. We just had map discussion. What was the decision with this exact track? No, our team of hurricane experts met. We're going to hold this track as it is and notice that that storm can get further west, and that's where the concerns could be about increasing the impacts along the North Carolina coastline, especially as it relates to the Outer Banks.

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