This NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Erin slowly moving north and east, away from New Jersey, Thursday afternoon, Aug. 21, 2025. However, Erin's outer bands are generating strong winds, rough surf and dangerous rip currents along the Jersey Shore and other East Coast beaches.

A state of emergency has been declared in New Jersey and a coastal flood warning is in effect for the Jersey Shore as Hurricane Erin causes dangerous conditions.

Hurricane Erin has battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes.

The Category 2 hurricane isn’t expected to make landfall. Still, it’s drawing notice as the first named storm to reach hurricane strength this year.

As Hurricane Erin moves east of the U.S., bringing impacts along the Atlantic coast, the National Hurricane Center continues to watch two areas in the tropics for possible development.

Officials are urging visitors to begin evacuating at 10 a.m. Monday from Hurricane Evacuation Zone A, which includes the unincorporated villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. Residents are to begin evacuating at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

In October 2017, the ex-hurricane Ophelia struck the British Isles, bringing hurricane-strength gusts of up to 90 miles per hour, particularly along the Irish Sea coasts of west Wales, while the Republic of Ireland saw winds of up to 97 miles per hour.