Rough surf conditions and dangerous rip currents have forced many beaches to ban swimming and boogie boarding this week.

Two more tropical systems trail Hurricane Erin, which is following a projected course that brushes past the East Coast without making landfall.

The Ocean City Beach Patrol has closed the ocean to swimming, wading and surfing Tuesday as tropical storm activity off the coast brings dangerous conditions to the resort town.

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An expanding Hurricane Erin is poised to bring rough surf and life-threatening waves to beaches from Florida from Massachusetts this week, despite spinning hundreds of miles off the US East Coast.

Hurricane Erin has strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it threatens to bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to the eastern coast of the United States. The rains caused by the storm are already beginning to hit the south-eastern Bahamas, and the Turk and Caicos Islands, where a tropical storm warning is in effect.

Island communities off the coast of North Carolina are bracing for flooding ahead of the year’s first Atlantic hurricane, Hurricane Erin. Although forecasters are confident that the storm won’t make direct landfall in the United States,

The hurricane’s behavior in recent days makes it one of the fastest-strengthening Atlantic hurricanes on record.

What are the chances of two new systems forming in the wake of Hurricane Erin? Here’s what the so-called spaghetti models are showing for possible tracks.

Erin briefly became a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend and weakened to Category 3 status as it moved north and west of Puerto Rico this weekend. It is now a Category 4 storm and will be moving more north in the next few days. A second disturbance could develop west of Erin later this week.