Hurricane Erin's path will keep its strongest winds offshore. However, this large storm will hammer the East Coast with coastal flooding and life-threatening rip currents through Friday. Here's the latest forecast.

Meteorologists are closely tracking the projected path and forecast of Hurricane Erin, which is the first hurricane to develop over the Atlantic this year.

According to the National Hurricane Center, a weather station at Jennette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, measured sustained winds of 41 mph and a gust of 49 mph early Thursday morning. The greatest impacts from Erin were focused on the central Outer ...

Most of the tourists have left Ocracoke Island, and the surfers are watching closely as deadly rip currents lurk below the waves.